Engineering Culture
Sweating the Bar and Raising the Details
Management meetings were built for an older information system. Poor writing keeps the machinery alive, and one calendar invitation can commit thousands before anybody acts.
Engineering Culture
Your Managers Are Not a Distribution List
Cascading a message through management loses reach, meaning and accountability. Policy owners should publish directly, notify proportionately and put repeated rules into the workflow.
Organisational Design
Smaller Delivery Units, Wider Management Spans
AI extends the reach of engineering judgement. Product delivery units can become smaller, management spans can become wider, and collective stewardship can remain.
Organisational Design
The Product Development Team Is No Longer the Smallest Unit of Delivery
AI lets one engineer carry work that might once have required a cross-functional product development team. Delivery units can shrink, management spans can widen, and the community can still own the product.
Organisational Design
Your Manager Has Six Reports Because Management Stopped Thinking in 1933
AI has reduced the cost of coordination across software engineering. Our management structures should probably notice.
Developer Experience
The Tide of Review
Why code review must be predictable, humane, and measured.
Organisational Design
Beyond Squads: The Case for Centres of Excellence
When muscles and nerves aren’t enough to stand.
Organisational Design
A Modern Approach to Engineering
The practices that make companies faster, safer, and engineers more valuable.
Developer Experience
Federated Design Systems: Global, Brand, Product
One wardrobe, many uniforms, one team.
Developer Experience
Boarding the Release Train
Why weekly release trains and a monorepo culture deliver stability, speed, and less toil.
Developer Experience
Email Signals
Clarity in the address line is clarity in the organisation.
Organisational Design
The Integration Dilemma
Balancing integration, adoption, and the lure of best-of-breed.