You don't need to code — but you need to know what vibe coding really is.
Four hours online, max. 12 senior leaders, confidential setting. Hands-on experience with AI-augmented development as the basis to lead your engineering org.
Trusted by leading European enterprises
Intellectual Basis
Based on Gene Kim's Vibe Coding
This workshop builds on Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge (foreword by Dario Amodei, Anthropic). We translate the book's core concepts into your concrete leadership reality — from the vibe-coding method to the FAAFO mindset and the implications for engineering organization and strategy.
The Leadership Challenge
You Face a Serious Choice
AI coding assistants are changing the economics of software development — from reported 10× engineer productivity to a redistribution of engineering skills. As a leader, you can either react once competitors are ahead, or you lead the transition. You can't do either without firsthand experience.
The Strategic Blind Spot
Most leaders decide on AI based on analyst reports and LinkedIn posts, not personal experience. You neither know what really works nor where your teams actually stand.
The Productivity Paradox
Reports of "10× productivity" meet internal realities of compliance, legacy code, and hiring freezes. Which promises hold in your setting? Not judgeable without hands-on experience.
The Organizational Rewiring
When AI takes over routine work, the engineering hierarchy shifts. Senior skills matter more, junior paths get unclear, estimates less reliable — you need a framework.
What You'll Learn
Theory & Mindset
You leave the workshop with a strategic framework for AI adoption, personal hands-on AI-cockpit experience, and an honest assessment of what's productive today versus what's still hype. Based on <em>Vibe Coding</em> by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge.
The “Why” of Vibe Coding
The fundamental shift beyond the hype — and why the economics of building software are changing. What it concretely means for your strategy, competitive position, and bottom line.
The FAAFO Framework
Build Faster, be more Ambitious, work Alone on complex projects, rediscover the Fun, and gain Optionality through parallel solutions. Gene Kim's mental model for AI's impact on development.
Head Chef, Not Line Cook
Away from manual implementation, toward directing AI collaborators and owning outcomes. What this role change means for hiring, team structure, and performance review in your org.
Enterprise vs. Side Projects
YouTube and X are full of AI demo games and hobby projects. We show how large organizations in regulated environments with real codebases actually capture the value of vibe coding.
AI Changes Software Estimation
With AI, variability rises dramatically — estimation gets harder, not easier. How to set realistic expectations and adapt planning to the new productivity profiles of AI-augmented teams.
Your Responsibility as a Leader
Vibe coding is organizational change, not just tool adoption. Frameworks for rollout, managing the transition, and the hard questions about team structures and ways of working.
Hands-On
Practice & Skills
You may not have written code in years — that's fine. These practical exercises are designed for leaders: no prior coding experience required, but deeply rewarding for those who have it. You'll feel firsthand what your engineers experience every day.
Hands-On Vibe Coding
You work directly with chat, agents, and GenAI tools on real software — no watching. You feel firsthand what 10× productivity is like. We guide you step by step.
Effective AI Collaboration
Task decomposition, effective prompting, verification (“Count Your Babies”), hardening generated code, managing AI agents. The skills that separate productive AI use from trial-and-error.
Accelerated Learning Techniques
Use AI as a learning partner, sharpen your “warning-signs detector,” stay oriented in the fast landscape — without drowning in the endless stream of new tools and techniques.
Essential Engineering Disciplines
How to adapt feedback loops, validation, verification, and modularity to work safely with AI. These engineering disciplines become more important with AI, not less.
Who It's For
Built for Senior Leaders & Decision-Makers
You don't need to be an engineer — we meet you at your level. But you do need to be willing to leave your comfort zone for 4 hours and put hands on the keyboard.
CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Heads of Engineering responsible for AI strategy, engineering productivity, and digital transformation. You lead teams — we deliver hands-on clarity for your decisions.
Principal Engineers, Staff Engineers, Architects, Tech Leads without direct people responsibility — but with strong leverage on engineering culture and technical direction.
Managing directors, board members, and strategic advisors who need a substantiated understanding of AI's impact on software-driven businesses — governance, risk, competition.
Format
How It Works
Every workshop starts with a confidential pre-assessment of your organization, competitive position, and transformation goals. We build the session on that. What's discussed in the room stays in the room.
Before: Confidential Strategic Assessment
A pre-assessment call about your organization, competitive position, transformation goals, and risk tolerance. We build the session on that — never off-the-shelf.
PrepStrategic Context & Market Analysis
Executive briefing on AI's impact on software development economics, competitive dynamics, and market transformation. What Cisco, Disney, John Deere already run in production.
StrategyEnterprise Case Studies
Confidential analysis of AI transformation initiatives from Fortune 500 organizations. Decision frameworks, implementation approaches, and measured business outcomes.
Case StudiesHands-on Lab (with safety net)
You work with current tools on a real task yourself. No spectator role — but our coaches are with you throughout. You experience first-hand what your engineers face daily.
PracticeStrategic Framework Development
We develop an organization-specific framework together: ROI models, risk matrix, transformation roadmap, governance structure.
StrategyAction Planning & Board Brief
You leave the workshop with a concrete action plan, success metrics, and a board-ready discussion brief.
ActionWhy XALT
Strategic Partner for Fortune 500 Organizations
XALT is strategic technology partner for some of the largest European enterprises. As an Atlassian Platinum Partner, we understand the complexity of large engineering organizations, their governance requirements, and the reality of AI adoption beyond pilot projects.
C-Level Strategy Experience
We advise C-Level technology executives at Fortune 500 organizations — board dynamics, stakeholder communication, and the strategic context of AI adoption.
Proven in Enterprise Contexts
Every framework is tested in Fortune 500 environments. Regulatory compliance, risk management, stakeholder alignment, measurable business value.
Atlassian Platinum Partner
Top Atlassian partner status in DACH. Confidential collaboration with BSH, Deutsche Bahn, and OTTO. Long-term partnership as standard.
Pricing
Pick the right edition
Both editions are 4 hours online, max. 12 attendees, personally tailored to your situation. Price per workshop, fully inclusive — pre-assessment, custom agenda, all materials.
- 4 hours online
- Max. 12 attendees
- Hands-on coding lab
- Personalized agenda after scoping call
- All materials included
- English or German
Price per workshop · plus VAT where applicable.
- 4 hours online
- Max. 12 senior leaders
- Strategic pre-assessment
- Confidential setting
- Frameworks for board-level conversations
- English or German
Price per workshop · plus VAT where applicable.
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Four hours hands-on. Then you'll lead AI discussions from your own experience.
You spend four hours at the tools yourself and see firsthand what AI delivers in an engineering org — and where the limits are. Your next decisions land on that foundation.