I still think about one migration project where everything was green until the final month. We did not have the luxury of extending the deadline. This was tied to external regulation and compliance, so missing the date was not really an option. We had to make it. Up until that point, the project had been reported as green. Then, almost […]
If you’ve been in leadership for a while, you know the drill: a line manager reports team progress along with the PM, anyone above reviews it in cadence and sees how things are moving. As business shifts, priorities shift, so you need to adjust without losing continuity or direction, from one cycle to the next. We all hate meetings, but […]
Engineering organizations have roles and responsibilities either explicitly or implicitly. When it’s explicit, one or more people exercise the engineering role, and the responsibilities are defined continuously. On the flip side, some organizations operate with these roles left undefined, relying on individual initiative rather than structured ownership. People take on roles implicitly, and occasionally they give up on them or […]
You probably saw many cliché stuff about risking everything. Not risking is the biggest risk and all. While there is a truth to that, risk needs to be an appetite. Remember what happened with the 2008 global financial crisis. Some took risks. Miscalculated. Misrepresented. Misaligned. So forth. Where did we end up? Entire markets froze. Liquidity vanished overnight. Companies collapsed […]