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Short reads on tech work — code, teams, and the human side.

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PeopleDoing

Onboarding a Peer When You're Also New to the Estate

Buddy programs assume someone already holds the map. On inherited systems, that assumption is often the first fiction.

The handover arrived as a shared drive, a vendor PDF that described the product nobody had bought, and a calendar invite labelled "buddy intro." Two analysts started the same Monday on a logistics ERP that had been customised for twelve years. HR had already cast one of them as buddy — the person who had started a for…

6 min · July 27, 2026

TeamMastery

DORA Metrics Are Not KPIs

What gets gamed the moment it's a target — and what actually tells you something about team health.

6 min · July 25, 2026

Build

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Code, architecture, and tooling — small topics, not RTFM.

Team

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How groups ship together — productivity, conflict, self-org.

TeamMastery

DORA Metrics Are Not KPIs

What gets gamed the moment it's a target — and what actually tells you something about team health.

6 min · July 25, 2026

TeamDoing

Ceremony Fatigue Is a People Problem

Your team can hit every Scrum event and still lose the humans who do the work — because the calendar was never about sustainable pace.

6 min · July 9, 2026

Lead

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Tech leading and hard calls — stakeholders, direction, trade-offs.

LeadDoing

The Rewrite Decision

Whether you rewrite or refactor is a bet you're asking a room to fund — and most of us pitch it like it's a matter of taste.

8 min · July 3, 2026

People

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The human side — burnout, hiring, interviews, career.