Your question is Building a Healthy Engineering Bench. Take a moment with it on the right.
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You're leading an engineering delivery organization where client demand changes quarter to quarter, and leadership wants a more deliberate view on bench health. You need to balance utilization, readiness for new work, cost discipline, and retention without treating the bench as idle capacity.
What is your approach to building and maintaining a healthy bench?