ETIS Publication Reading Paths¶
The ETIS publication portfolio is designed as a connected body of work. These reading paths help readers enter the publication program through the sequence most relevant to their role, responsibilities, and goals.
These are publication reading paths: they sequence ETIS White Papers, Executive Briefs, and Education Papers. For comprehensive lifecycle treatment and longer-form professional formation, continue into ETIS Books after or alongside the publication path that best fits your needs.
New to ETIS¶
Recommended sequence: WP-001 → WP-002 → WP-003 → WP-011 → WP-012
Outcome: Understand the industry shift, repository-centered engineering, engineering evidence, trust, and the core ETIS doctrine.
- WP-001 — Engineering Trustworthy Software in the AI Era
- WP-002 — Repository-Centered Engineering
- WP-003 — Engineering Evidence
- WP-011 — Engineering Trust
- WP-012 — The ETIS Manifesto
Technology Executive¶
Recommended sequence: EB-001 → EB-002 → EB-003 → EB-004 → EB-005
Outcome: Move from governance through organizational design, agentic readiness, platform strategy, and meaningful measurement.
- EB-001 — Why AI Changes Software Governance
- EB-002 — The Future Software Engineering Organization
- EB-003 — Preparing Engineering Organizations for Agentic Development
- EB-004 — Building an AI Engineering Platform
- EB-005 — Measuring Engineering in the AI Era
Engineer or Architect¶
Recommended sequence: WP-001 → WP-002 → WP-003 → WP-006 → WP-007 → WP-008 → WP-009
Outcome: Build a lifecycle view of engineering, governance, review, operations, and context.
- WP-001 — Engineering Trustworthy Software in the AI Era
- WP-002 — Repository-Centered Engineering
- WP-003 — Engineering Evidence
- WP-006 — Engineering Governance
- WP-007 — Engineering Review and Readiness
- WP-008 — Operational Readiness
- WP-009 — Context Engineering
Student or Instructor¶
Recommended sequence: COMP-WP-001 → COMP-WP-003 → COMP-WP-004 → WP-001 → WP-005
Outcome: Establish the profession, teamwork, responsible AI use, the state of practice, and the ETIS education model.
- COMP-WP-001 — Why Software Engineering Matters More in the AI Era
- COMP-WP-003 — Working Effectively on an Engineering Team
- COMP-WP-004 — Using AI Professionally
- WP-001 — Engineering Trustworthy Software in the AI Era
- WP-005 — Engineering Education in the AI Era
Agentic-System Leader¶
Recommended sequence: WP-004 → WP-009 → WP-010 → EB-003 → EB-004
Outcome: Understand authority, context, human-agent teams, organizational readiness, and platform strategy.
- WP-004 — Engineering Agentic Software Systems
- WP-009 — Context Engineering
- WP-010 — Engineering Digital Colleagues
- EB-003 — Preparing Engineering Organizations for Agentic Development
- EB-004 — Building an AI Engineering Platform
Governance or Risk Leader¶
Recommended sequence: WP-003 → WP-006 → WP-007 → WP-011 → EB-001
Outcome: Connect evidence, governance, review, trust, and executive control.
- WP-003 — Engineering Evidence
- WP-006 — Engineering Governance
- WP-007 — Engineering Review and Readiness
- WP-011 — Engineering Trust
- EB-001 — Why AI Changes Software Governance
Continue into ETIS Books¶
The publication paths provide focused entry points. ETIS Books provide the longer-form works that sit beside them in the broader ETIS publishing architecture.
- For comprehensive full-lifecycle engineering: continue with the ETIS Framework Reference Work, Engineering Trustworthy Intelligent Systems.
- For sustained professional formation: explore From Data Structures to Engineering Judgment, the inaugural title in the ETIS Professional Computing Series. It uses data structures and algorithms as the teaching vehicle for developing engineering judgment, evidence-based reasoning, tradeoff analysis, AI accountability, and professional responsibility.
The books and publications are complementary: publications provide focused arguments and role-based guidance; books provide sustained treatment and professional formation.