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.
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.
Monday Myth: “Engineering Must Know Everything in Advance”
A stubborn myth persists in tech: engineering must foresee everything before writing a single line of code. Perfect requirements. Perfect risk maps. Perfect predictability. It is not professionalism. It is fear.
Friday Fun: The Gollums of Tech
Every organisation has at least one Gollum. Not evil. Worse. Someone who clings to a system, a domain, or a piece of code with a devotion completely disconnected from reality.
