Excuse-Driven Product Management
There is a recurring pattern in modern product organisations that rarely gets called out because it is uncomfortable, political, and often shielded by good intentions.
It is not bad product management. It is excuse-driven product management.
Why Foundations of Excellence Now
IT grew fast. It claimed to professionalise. It also claimed it scaled. But it never truly matured. We thought we gained processes, titles, and methodologies, yet never built the foundations that make a discipline serious. Craft weakened. Responsibility diffused. Consequences blurred.
The Loop of Doom: How Implementation-First Thinking Kills Engineering
Walk into enough technology organisations and you will observe the same pattern repeating itself. Teams ship fast. Incidents multiply. Architecture degrades. Morale erodes. Yet delivery never slows down. On the contrary, it accelerates.
This is not progress. It is a loop of doom.
Monday Myth: “We Ship Fast Now. We Fix It Later.”
There is a persistent myth in modern IT and product organisations: that rushing a delivery without proper acceptance criteria is a valid trade-off in the name of speed.
What the Hunting Licence Reveals About Systems, Tradition, and the Discipline Modern IT Lost
The French hunting licence is not a recreational certification. It is a demanding, consequence-driven system refined over more than fifty years. It embodies principles that modern IT has repeatedly forgotten.
The Day I Stopped Lowering the Bar for Anyone
Two cats gone. Lola first. Minette now.
Both died with their eyes open, and with a level of dignity that people in positions of responsibility no longer even attempt to match.
