Posts | Thomas Nys

Technical debt as permanent friction - why drag slows every delivery sprint

From Technical Debt to Technical Drag

Brooks's Law for data teams - why hiring more engineers slows delivery

Why More Developers Won't Fix Delivery Problems

Architecture review ROI - why skipping reviews costs months of rework

The False Economy of Skipping Architecture Reviews

Genius developer risk pattern - when your best engineer becomes your biggest liability

The Genius Developer Anti-Pattern

Technical debt interest rate - why code shortcuts compound faster than finance

Hidden Cost Multiplier: Technical Debt Compounds Faster Than Financial Debt

Architecture coupling costs - how shared services slow roadmap delivery

Dependencies - Hidden Drags on Progress

Velocity paradox in engineering - how shortcuts become walls at speed

The Velocity Paradox

Engineer retention and technical debt - how poor architecture drives attrition

Why Your Best Engineers Leave - It's the Architecture

Internal platform product mindset - treating engineering teams as customers

Platform as Product - Enabling Team Autonomy

Technical debt refactoring myth - why teams never find time to fix architecture

The Expensive Lie - We'll Refactor Later