Relationship to Hyper-Velocity Engineering

Human-First Engineering complements Hyper-Velocity Engineering (HVE) — a term coined by Mike Lanzetta of Microsoft’s Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) group.

HVE is a high-performance, AI-accelerated approach to software that lets expert, multi-disciplinary teams deliver production-quality outcomes at high speed. It is grounded in two important distinctions: velocity is a vector — pace and direction — not raw speed, and HVE is explicit that it is not vibe coding. “Move faster and break more things” is not the goal; quality code, produced more quickly by a team working deliberately with AI, is.

The two frameworks answer different questions

• HVE — how fast can expert, multi-disciplinary teams go when AI is used deliberately?
• HFE — how do we stay expert, and keep producing expert engineers, while we do it?

Together they form a more complete picture: HVE is how the team moves; HFE is how the team is built and sustained.

The practices document maps HVE’s patterns onto HFE’s principles.

Further reading

• What is Hypervelocity Engineering? — Mike Lanzetta — the original definition.
• Accelerating AI Development with GitHub Copilot — Microsoft ISE — real-world use cases.