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 Careers and progression for engineers in the CTO organisation.
 
-:warning: This project is currently in **ALPHA**, please do not use this to guide promotions decisions yet. We'll be publishing a **BETA** in the near future and helping to test this in a promotions round after that.
+:info: This project is currently in **BETA**. You may use this to guide promotions decisions from September 2019.
 
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