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Excellence

22
Jan
Transducing Strategy into Action

Transducing Strategy into Action

Most strategies remain coherent at executive level yet become unusable at the point of execution. It occurs because the connection between strategy and day-to-day tactical work has been lost.
3 min read
21
Jan
Before Asking for More People, Change How You Deliver

Before Asking for More People, Change How You Deliver

Delivery slows. Pressure rises. Roadmaps slip. And the conclusion forms almost immediately: we need more people. From a product perspective, this feels rational. More scope appears, more stakeholders lean in, and timelines refuse to move. Headcount looks like the only remaining lever.
5 min read
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
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
08
Jan
Stop Chasing Motivation. Start Building Purpose.

Stop Chasing Motivation. Start Building Purpose.

Modern organisations remain obsessed with motivation. Leaders search for it, stimulate it, demand it, and worry when it fades. This obsession is not harmless. It ranks among the most manipulative, draining, and corrosive habits of contemporary leadership.
4 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