Ideas
Essays, frameworks and research on how organisations create and deliver technology value.
AI Engineering Transformation
AI is increasing engineering supply faster than organisations can absorb it. The real job of the CTO is no longer making engineers faster. It is redesigning the system that now has to keep up with them.
Archive
Essays written between 2022 and 2025 within the QE Unit body of work, on quality engineering, architecture and technology leadership. Published here with their original dates.
Systemic CTO
Architecture debt, incentives, team boundaries and skills concentration.
Data & AI
Turning verification data into a decision system rather than a reporting exercise.
Systemic CTO
Value streams, ownership boundaries and data interfaces: the grey areas that decide outcomes.
Technology Leadership
People, applications and roadmap: the few things a technology executive can actually control.
Quality Engineering
The indicators that the production system, not the teams, is the constraint.
Enterprise Architecture
From three months to three days on a business-critical legacy system.
Quality Engineering
A capability map of methods, architecture, management, organization and skills.
Quality Engineering
Why quality practices alone slow you down, and what changes when you treat production as a system.
Enterprise Architecture
The evolution path from monolith to modular monolith to services, and when it stops there.
Enterprise Architecture
A step-by-step assessment of business, methods, architecture, engineering, technology, management and skills.
Enterprise Architecture
Three architecture practices that give a moving platform stable points of construction.