Tag: engineering
All the articles with the tag "engineering".
Building adaptive organisations: a reading guide
A guide to the ideas I have been writing about since returning to this blog — technology leadership, organisational adaptability, and creating strategic options in a period of accelerating change.
Moving fast requires more than speed.
There is a common belief that quality and speed exist in tension. Over many years working with engineering teams, I have found the opposite. Quality is what creates sustainable speed.
Agile was never about the ceremonies. It was about building adaptive organisations.
The most valuable part of agile was never the ceremonies themselves. It was the thinking behind them — creating organisations that could learn, adapt, and respond to change.
Technical skills make engineers effective. Core skills make them impactful.
The difference between someone who can implement a technical solution and someone who creates meaningful impact is often found in what I think of as core skills: curiosity, empathy, communication, and judgement.
Platform engineering is not about platforms. It is about leverage.
A platform is not successful because it exists. It is successful because it makes the right thing easier. Platform engineering is an organisational capability, not a technology capability.