Pull twelve months of incident data for any large estate and a familiar shape appears before you finish the query. A small cluster of services dominates the pager. A small
Here is a fact that should bother you more than it probably does. SPFS, the messaging system Russia built to survive expulsion from SWIFT, supports ISO 20022. The Bank of
Every large organization has a moment when one team becomes convinced another team is acting against them. The API broke the day before their launch. The platform team deprecated the
Part 1 covered Parkinson’s Law: give the work more time and the work will take more time. The natural response is to tighten estimates and add a disciplined buffer. Douglas
Each examines one law: where it came from, why it persists, and what to do about it. Ask any program manager how long a project will take and you will
There is an unspoken rule in the modern enterprise: when the market moves, you move with it. Right now, that movement is an aggressive, uniform march toward AI-driven structural restructuring.
Engineering teams are making a massive miscalculation with AI. We treat it as a tool that magically delivers better work, faster. It doesn’t. AI does not give you speed. It
Fig.1 The Documentation Graveyard Every mid-senior developer has lived this story. You join a new team, crack open the API docs, and discover they describe an endpoint that was refactored
“A fool with a tool is still a fool.” — Grady Booch
