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Organisational Design.

How team boundaries, management structures and decision rights shape the work.

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25 Aug 2026

The Coordination Tax in Your Software Estate

5 min Monorepo

23 Aug 2026

Faux InnerSource

7 min InnerSource

14 Aug 2026

Sweating the Bar and Raising the Details

5 min Communication

13 Aug 2026

Your Managers Are Not a Distribution List

6 min Communication

10 Aug 2026

Smaller Delivery Units, Wider Management Spans

5 min Organisational Design

9 Aug 2026

The Product Development Team Is No Longer the Smallest Unit of Delivery

11 min Organisational Design

8 Aug 2026

Your Manager Has Six Reports Because Management Stopped Thinking in 1933

12 min Organisational Design

18 Sep 2025

The Tide of Review

4 min Engineering Practice

11 Sep 2025

Beyond Squads: The Case for Centres of Excellence

6 min Organisational Design

4 Sep 2025

A Modern Approach to Engineering

5 min Engineering Practice

28 Aug 2025

Federated Design Systems: Global, Brand, Product

5 min Software Architecture

14 Aug 2025

Email Signals

2 min Communication

24 Jul 2025

The Integration Dilemma

3 min Software Architecture

26 Jun 2025

The Code Belongs to Everyone

4 min InnerSource

22 May 2025

Not Just Upwards

4 min Organisational Design

15 May 2025

Lowest Common Denominator Thinking

5 min Judgement

20 Mar 2025

What is a Monorepo, and Why Does it Matter?

4 min Monorepo

27 Feb 2025

The Trunk is the Team

4 min Monorepo

13 Feb 2025

Shouting in the Digital Office

6 min Communication

30 Jan 2025

Streamlining Collaboration: How Mirroring Frontend and Backend Teams Can Solve Coordination Challenges

5 min Organisational Design