Delivery
12 posts filed under Delivery.
Real-Time Failure Modes
Duplicate invoices came from the recovery, not the outage. The retry replayed 40 minutes into a double-counting sink.
Read →Hiring Retention Via Culture Fit
We changed one screening step and two senior data engineers are still there, past year two.
Read →Brooks Law In Data Hires
A scaleup added 3 data engineers to catch up. Delivery got slower for 2 months.
Read →The Dashboard Nobody Uses (EUR60K Lesson)
Three months of development. EUR60K in cost. Zero daily users. The most expensive screensaver I've ever seen.
Read →Refactoring Without Stopping Delivery
Refactoring projects fail. Refactoring routines succeed.
Read →Why hiring more developers won't fix your delivery proble...
Why hiring more developers won't fix your delivery problems A lack of hands doesn't cause slow delivery. It's a lack of coherence that …
Read →You don't scale by sprinting harder
You don't scale by sprinting harder. You scale by eliminating friction. Everyone desires velocity. Few invest in what truly sustains it. …
Read →"Faster" alone won't save anyone
"Faster" alone won't save anyone
Read →Specialists make things work
Specialists make things work. Generalists make things connect.
Read →Clarity is cheap. Confusion costs millions.
Clarity is cheap. Confusion costs millions.
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