I Want to Speak to a Human Who Can Make Decisions
The story about a MOT that revealed a systemic problem in how organisations deal with decisions.
Communication Friction: Are Your User Stories Growing?
When user stories grow from cards to paragraphs, you don’t have better requirements—you have communication friction you’re compensating for with text.
The Skills You Optimized For Are Now Your Bottleneck
How “give it to the most capable developer” creates structural dependencies, and why your technical strengths now bottleneck team capability.
The Crisis Management Addiction: Why Your Team Prefers Chaos to Planning
Why teams prefer crisis work to planning, the neurochemistry of firefighting, and how to break the addiction through disciplined leverage points.
Anticipating the Security Wake-Up Call: Lessons the history
Why we’re heading for another security crisis. And why the way out is not sexy enough to merit decision makers to adopt improvement practices.
Improvement is Invisible even when It Prevents a Crisis
Why improvement loses to tools, the ROI impossibility in software, and systemic People-Process-Tools thinking that creates invisible but lasting advantage.
Your Date or Mine? Negotiating Reality in the Age of 'Move Fast'
Why AI tools won’t fix impossible deadlines. Building accountability, evidence-based pushback, and sustainable planning that creates trust through consistent delivery.
AI Productivity Claims Are Making Your Development Teams Less Productive
Why AI productivity hype creates perception gaps and amplifies team dysfunction for scaling organizations.
The AI Velocity Trap: When 'Shipping Faster' Actually Means Delivering Less Value
How AI coding assistants create false productivity gains while teams unknowingly sacrifice code quality and business value.
How to maintain quality and velocity when AI assistants become part of your development workflow
Why development fundamentals become critical when AI assistants join your workflow – and how to avoid common integration pitfalls.