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Articles
Industry trends, commentary, and reports from the real work of building and delivering software.
Building Nilo with AI exposed what a working demo hides: deployment handovers, billing promises, data boundaries, and misleading evidence.
Mary Poppendieck showed why busy teams still deliver slowly: work waits in queues while leaders optimize the wrong part of the system.
Computer use can operate an interface. Reliable business workflows still need explicit validation, safe retries, and recovery.
Stories
Stories make familiar situations easier to see and discuss, with a bit of healthy entertainment along the way.
The forty-seven questions from Passau become a daily occupation. Stefan finds a gap the navigation team cannot investigate without Marcus's approval, while radio still puts small changes onto real hardware. ...
Stefan joins a failing São Paulo automotive supplier. As developers make progress, fraud and executive decisions threaten the team.
After Whitaker Payroll shuts its doors, the damage spreads unevenly. Some former employees find new work quickly. Others discover that decades of loyalty, office competence, and narrow specialization do not ...
A coach proves an Ohio payroll system can be modernized. Leaders fire him twice to protect their status as the company unravels.
The day before Sophie flies back to Berlin, Mateo takes them to Kuna Yala. The road climbs from the Chepo side into the mountains, the Caribbean appears below them in impossible color, and a Guna family serv...
No consultants. No frameworks. No dysfunction. Just a sixteen-year-old Berlin girl discovering her father's real life among horses, heat, and the people of Chepo.