Leadership
Why revenue alone is an incomplete score for leaders
Building profitable companies is hard, and revenue matters. But measuring a career only by revenue leaves out the part that lasts. The question I keep coming back to…
Field notes
Insights
Field notes on software team performance, business systems, automation and leading through uncertainty.
Systems and Automation
Automation is not the same thing as scalability
New tools, including AI, do not fix a broken business process. They run it faster, which means they make its mistakes faster too. Automation moves work. Architecture removes…
Team Performance
Why adding software engineers usually slows delivery first
Most executives assume that five more engineers will mean a lot more output. In practice, adding people to a team that is already behind usually makes it later…