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20
Jan
Incremental Delivery Is Not a Process Choice. It Is a Discipline Choice.

Incremental Delivery Is Not a Process Choice. It Is a Discipline Choice.

Incremental delivery is not a process choice. It is a discipline choice. If something cannot run in production, it does not qualify as a delivery. Each increment must change behaviour, be measurable, and live in production. Anything else is activity, not value.
3 min read
19
Jan
Monday Myth: Team Autonomy Means Teams Can Do Whatever They Want

Monday Myth: Team Autonomy Means Teams Can Do Whatever They Want

Team autonomy has become one of the most abused ideas in modern technology organisations. What was originally meant to increase focus, speed, and ownership is now frequently used to justify weak standards, deferred quality, and blurred accountability.
5 min read
16
Jan
Friday Fun: The Soft Collapse

Friday Fun: The Soft Collapse

This is a story about humans who stopped thinking, stopped learning, and mistook tooling for competence.
2 min read
15
Jan
Reality Is Not Optional: What AI Hype Forgets

Reality Is Not Optional: What AI Hype Forgets

The current obsession with autonomous AI agents, “vibe coding”, and team replacement narratives is not a technological breakthrough. It is a symptom of a deeper disconnection from reality.
5 min read
14
Jan
The Rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia : a Forgotten Playbook for IT

The Rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia : a Forgotten Playbook for IT

The Rule of Saint Benedict has run communities for more than 1,500 years. No venture capital. No reorganisation every eighteen months. No motivational slogans. Just work that lasts. If modern IT wants to stop mistaking motion for progress, it should study why this rule worked.
4 min read
13
Jan
The Sponsorship Gap

The Sponsorship Gap

Organisations often claim to value senior expertise, systems thinking, and leadership maturity. Yet, they place experienced leaders or experts into complex roles without providing the conditions required for that expertise to matter.
4 min read
12
Jan
Monday Myth: The Unicorn Fallacy

Monday Myth: The Unicorn Fallacy

IT does not struggle because it lacks talent, frameworks, or ambition. It struggles because it has progressively disconnected from reality. Systems drifting too far from reality eventually collapse, regardless of how elegant they appear in presentations.
5 min read
09
Jan
Friday Fun: Corporate Survival Field Manual

Friday Fun: Corporate Survival Field Manual

Survival is sometimes not a choice. You stay because the market is irrational, because timing is wrong, because bills do not wait for ideology, and because leaving too early can be more damaging than staying longer than you should.
3 min read
07
Jan
Seniority, Impact, and the Wrong Questions

Seniority, Impact, and the Wrong Questions

Why hiring for accumulation keeps organisations from scaling with leverage.
3 min read
06
Jan
Embracing Risk: Engineering With Reality

Embracing Risk: Engineering With Reality

Nothing reconnects you to reality more than designing with risk instead of pretending it should not exist.
3 min read