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Your Company Already Has a Second Operating Model
Someone in your company built something to learn or fix an immediate problem, not to run as a production service. That’s happening more frequently with AI-enabled development. They built to learn, not to earn, to borrow Marty Cagan’s vernacular. The artifact they created exists to test an idea, a workflow, or a customer reaction —…
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AI Made You Accountable for Decisions You Never Saw
Your calendar looks the same as it did a year ago. The same standups, the same one-on-ones, roughly the same number of meetings with roughly the same amount of stuff said out loud. But far more work is getting done in the gaps between those meetings, and more work getting done means more decisions getting…
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If You Want Compliance, Start with Celebration
AI broke the model compliance was built around. The issue is no longer preventing people from building software. The issue is now knowing what already exists. When anyone in the company can ship working tools, governance stops being primarily a process problem and becomes a visibility problem. That visibility comes from culture, not tools or…
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What Is Product Management For When Everyone Builds
AI changed who can build software. That part is obvious by now. What’s less obvious is what happens to the coordination functions inside technology organizations — product management, compliance, UI/UX design, QA — that existed because building took time. These functions grew up inside a centralized development pipeline where PMs defined work, compliance was baked…
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Infrastructure by Adoption: An AI-Engineering First Principle
Infrastructure used to be only created by decision. Now it’s also created by adoption. Useful tools are getting built everywhere now — a solutions architect writes an integration wrapper to unblock onboarding, a PM stands up a dashboard pulling from three APIs, an engineer builds a CLI to automate a migration. These things work. They…
