August 5, 2025
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🌱 Cultivating Excellence IV: Customer Champions
Creating space to work with the real users of your systems is one of the biggest shortcuts to impact. Use it wisely.
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July 29, 2025
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🌱 Cultivating Excellence IV: Onboarding Engineering Hires
What does a good onboarding look like for an engineer? How do you know when they're ready to really get stuck in? Does it even matter?
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July 22, 2025
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🌱 Cultivating Excellence IV: Career Frameworks
More than just a checklist, a career framework is a perfect opportunity to lead your team to deliver not only for the business, but for themselves too
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July 15, 2025
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🧑🚀 Operational Readiness & Resilience III: Risk Registers
Surfacing things that you're intentionally accepting as risks is essential for businesses that need to value impact above all else.
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July 8, 2025
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🧑🚀 Operational Readiness & Resilience III: DORA
A more methodical way to measure engineering effectivness across medium-large engineering organisations
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July 1, 2025
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🧑🚀 Operational Readiness & Resilience III: Postmortems
Taking our incidents post one step further, lets dive a little deeper into what makes a great postmortem.
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June 24, 2025
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🧑🚀 Operational Readiness & Resilience III: Incident Management
Things break, all the time, but putting all that chaos in clarity is one of the core responsibilities of an engineering leader.
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June 17, 2025
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🧑🚀 Operational Readiness & Resilience III: Observability
Observability goes much deeper than just logs and traces, here's how to ensure you're covering the right things at the right depth.
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June 10, 2025
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🧑🤝💻 Building with Intent II: Golden Paths
Sensible defaults enable teams to move without sweating the small stuff or death by committee. Let's dive into how this looks in practice
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June 3, 2025
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🧑🤝💻 Building with Intent II: Software Governance
Often overlooked, how software is governed through the lens of data integrity is extremely important at scale.
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May 27, 2025
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🧑🤝💻 Building with Intent II: CAPS
More than just a keystroke, a suitable CAPS framework is a great addition to any engineering leaders toolkit to ensure software is built with excellence in mind
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May 20, 2025
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🧑🤝💻 Building with Intent II: Impact Analysis
Ensuring you have a methodical way to check against side effects from day to day working, this routine will ensure you ship the right stuff, without unwanted side effects
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May 13, 2025
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🧑🤝💻 Building with Intent II: RFCs
Having a one stop shop for everything to do with how a project came to be is a powerful tool, but must utilised responsibly to be effective. Here's how.
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May 6, 2025
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🧑🤝🧑 Team Foundations I: RACI
Ownership and accountability should run deep through a team. Here's one method to ensure you this culture is instilled day to day
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April 29, 2025
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🧑🤝🧑 Team Foundations I: Directly Responsible Individual
Ownership and accountability should run deep through a team. Here's one method to ensure you this culture is instilled day to day
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April 22, 2025
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🧑🤝🧑 Team Foundations I: Team Canvas
Coming in to a new team, getting everyone aligned is paramount. This post will give you some good insights on how to approach these sessions
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April 15, 2025
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🧑🤝🧑 Team Foundations I: Engineering Readiness
An easy and methodological way to debug teams and see where you have areas that you're doing well in, and areas you have areas to improve on
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