The simple loop executives use

The ConveRel quadrants are a way for you to triage your meetings and figure out which ones can immediately or eventually be async.

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As AI shifts engineers from builders to reviewers, research shows the resulting burnout is about a changing identity, not workload.

Team Topologies names four team types — but skips the broad, cross-product team that can work on any feature end-to-end. Why that gap matters.

Consider this table. The columns represents mission duration (in months). The rows are Cost of Delay ($s per month opportunity cost). The…

Vicarious learning is a real thing: we absorb skills and knowledge by watching others, hearing about their mistakes, seeing what worked. This is why postmort...

Decision-making is the bottleneck today.

Why the pull request is no longer a reliable control for AI-generated code, and how Agentic XP moves rigour upstream into contracts and metrics.

One thing that bothered me about Imprint’s product after joining was our lack of passkey support. Passkey support is a rare opportunity to increase resiliency to phishing attacks while simultaneously…

Whether in a boardroom or a project huddle, high-performing teams follow a simple rule of thumb: act when you have 40 to 70% of the information you wish you had.

Explore the simple "Know, Feel, Do" framework to effectively inform, engage, and motivate your audience to action

People need to work on problems that have an impact or else they won’t be intrinsically motivated to sustain an incubation effort.

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The PREP framework offers a simple yet powerful method for delivering a quick, unplanned speech. With PREP, you have a handy acronym to…

Write down what you mean.

What we can learn from the disorienting changes hitting the software industry, and how we can use that to improve at sensemaking this uncertain new technology.

When I started my first job at Amazon.com, as the first analyst in the strategic planning department, I inherited the work of producing the Analytics Package. I capitalize the term because it was…

A framework outlining levels of AI agent autonomy can be used to support the responsible deployment of AI agents

From micro-manager to macro-manager: coding's asynchronous future

Understand the tradeoffs of team size and span of control for managers

If you’re reading this, you’re likely familiar with the Locating Yourself model. I love this it because it’s disarmingly simple and paradoxically, clinically precise. It points me to the organizing…

Last Thursday Honeycomb was kind enough to hand me the closing keynote slot at O11yCon, a conference whose entire premise is that observability matters

“We’re accumulating code faster than we are accumulating trust.” Sometimes a phrase just hits.

Explore push/pull communication in Agile teams. Learn to balance info flow for success. Dive in now for expert insights!

In eighth-grade math, getting the right answer wasn’t enough. If you couldn’t show the steps you took to get there, you didn’t get the…

Peter Naur's 1985 theory of programming explains why experience matters more in the age of AI-generated code

Explore how generative culture boosts team performance and innovation.

A long-form article entitled: "Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development"

The converging best practices for building with coding agents, from OpenAI to Stripe to OpenClaw.

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Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

Back pressure for agents You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able to setup structure around the agent itself, to provide it…

Six rules for turning goal-setting from a spreadsheet exercise into an operating system.

We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...

The Discipline That Looks Like Recklessness

Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the painful ones you don't like.

How to automate the low-stakes tasks consuming your time so you can focus on the high-stakes decisions that actually matter

“Product first” was supposed to deliver what best serves customers. It’s now mostly feature factories & order taking. Let’s fix it.

This relatively simple yet powerful concept has been popularised through Angela Duckworth in her book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.  It was originally presented as a parenting model…

Here is an attempt to establish a definition of Output, Outcome and Impacts! It is based on my interpretation of the work of Jeff Patton, Marty Cagan and Clayton Christensen, with some good input…

Leadership isn’t about having the right answers. It’s about how you see—yourself, your team, and the moment you’re in. Are you showing up in a way that reacts, or one that creates? This is the…

Draft Navigating ambiguity Impact Across Timeframes Ensure your areas of responsibility make progress across both the short and long term: Work on multiple clocks. Deliver today’s commitments while…