Writing and maintaining software in the real world: verifying what you were handed, keeping business rules out of the code, knowing when to delete instead of debug, and what changes when a machine writes the first draft.
Digital TransformationSeptember 1, 2026
Every platform purchase has a gap between signing and working, and nobody plans for what happens inside it. We bought enterprise middleware during a major migration, and while it was being implemented one of my programmers and his team wrote…
Digital TransformationSeptember 1, 2026
The most valuable product the firm I worked for ever sold started as two people fixing something on the side because a machine was slow and it bothered them. Nobody asked for it, nobody funded it, and nobody could have…
AISeptember 1, 2026
If your team has been stuck on the same problem for more than a few days, the fastest fix is usually to delete the work and start over, and almost nobody does it. I lost weeks to a bug that…
IT OperationsSeptember 1, 2026
Software that keeps customer rules in code has a ceiling, and you find the ceiling at the worst possible time. Software that keeps them in a table has no ceiling at all.
Digital TransformationAugust 27, 2026
Asking for something is not the same as verifying you got it, and the gap between those two costs more project time than any other mistake I have watched. We asked a client for their source code. They sent it.…
IT InfrastructureJuly 13, 2026
Before installing any software, ask how many people keep it alive. The number is public, takes five minutes to find, and predicts more grief than any feature list. The story of an excellent theme with a bus factor of one.
Digital TransformationFebruary 8, 2026
Five young developers came to a dim restaurant for career advice, brimming with confidence about microservices and cloud-native everything, and had no idea what was coming. Forty years of IT disasters teach you about Murphy's Law and how fragile everything…
CybersecurityFebruary 8, 2026
Testing is the hardest job in most IT departments and the place projects quietly die. After years in operations, the sheer lack of it still stuns me, shipped code that would not run, programs never tested at all. Real testing…
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