After many months of writing, reviewing, editing, and refining, the 4th edition of The Ultimate Docker Container Book is finally reaching the finish line. Twenty chapters. Hundreds of pages. Dozens…
The setup In my last post, I explored why traditional specs, no matter how detailed, often don’t tell the full story. They leave too much room for interpretation. Several readers…
The illusion of clarity Ever sat in a sprint planning meeting, stared at a Jira epic with twelve user stories, nodded along, and then spent the next three weeks discovering…
Sometimes the most interesting posts are not the ones we write, but the questions they provoke. After my recent post “When Everything Shares the Same Centre, Everything Breaks Together”, someone…
As our policy system evolved, adding new features sometimes revealed dependencies elsewhere. Not because the team made mistakes. Because the system was designed so that processing a claim, issuing a…
There is a disruption underway that is larger than most people in white-collar professions currently realize. Artificial intelligence, robotics, and the rapid progress in energy storage and clean energy are…
That is one of the friendlier reactions you hear when you suggest modelling an enterprise system using just four foundational building blocks. You can see the skepticism immediately. Engineers lean…
In my last posts, I wrote about modelling one business activity at a time and about replacing gatekeepers with clarity. Now I want to address the part that usually triggers…
In my last post, I described how clarity can replace gatekeepers. This time I want to stay with that thought and go one step further. What actually needs to change…
For a long time, I have been writing about fragments. About starting execution too early. About governance models that fail. About building blocks. About understanding before coding. Today I want…