Bitwarden's technical strategy has a vertical shape: ideas live at the top, initiatives in the middle, and team-level epics and stories at the bottom. The tech lead is the role that spans the vertical — noticing the patterns at the bottom that belong at the top, and translating the work at the top back down into stories the team ships.

This skill covers that full vertical:

Recognizing an idea worth capturing.
Framing it well enough for Architecture to evaluate.
Understanding how an approved idea becomes a BW Initiative.
Defining epic-level and story-level work downward from an initiative.

The canonical references are Technical Strategy Ideas and Idea-Based Initiatives. Fetch them via get_confluence_page when the full templates or the complete field definitions are needed.

The Top of the Funnel: Technical Strategy Ideas

Technical Strategy Ideas (TSIs) are Bitwarden's idea backlog — the curated collection of technical improvement opportunities that Architecture maintains in Jira Product Discovery under the ARCH project. Ideas get RICE-scored, categorized by theme, and placed on a Now / Next / Later roadmap. The ones that get prioritized enter the Software Initiative Funnel at Identification.

Recognizing an Idea Worth Capturing

Create a TSI when these patterns appear:

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The Top of the Funnel: Technical Strategy Ideas

Recognizing an Idea Worth Capturing