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Software Compliance Was Designed for a Pipeline That No Longer Exists
A company can have a mature compliance program, a software development lifecycle followed by everyone in DevOps, Product, IT, and Engineering, and still have a growing compliance hole. The controls didn’t necessarily get worse. AI changed who can build, and the world changed underneath the controls. For a long time, most consequential software passed through…
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AI Didn’t Break Technical Interviews, It Exposed Our Proxies
Recently, I was tagged on a LinkedIn discussion about system design interviews. The interviewer had a problem I suspect a lot of technical interviewers are having these days. A candidate proposes a technology or vendor that you don’t know particularly well as a solution to your question and makes a factual claim about it. For…
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Everyone You Work With Is Already on a Subscription Plan
The first time I showed a room of managers a slide explaining how I keep track of my communication responsibilities, they laughed at me. They did try to hold it back because I’m the boss. But it didn’t work very well. And that’s fair. I don’t mind getting laughed at. I had sorted the people…
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You Can Only Push Decisions as Far Down as Context Travels
I keep hearing a version of the same question: how do I get people to make more decisions themselves? There are plenty of reasons people don’t make decisions. Analysis paralysis. No time to think. Unclear authority. Not wanting to own the outcome. But even when someone is willing and allowed to make a decision, they…
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The Missing Half of ‘Share a Win’
Every management book, every “how to run better meetings” post, every leadership-tips list tells you: start your staff meeting by asking each person for a win. I do it. I’ve done it for years. But I noticed that the write-ups usually stop at the prompt. And, while important, I think the prompt is the least…
