BusinessNotes on architecture, delivery, and AI in engineering teams
Field notes from architecture and delivery work: what actually moved the numbers in engineering teams, what did not, and the trade-offs behind each call.
What an AI readiness audit actually measures
The useful version of the AI readiness question counts which processes have a clear input and a predictable output — and what that is worth in hours.
Finding production bugs before your customers do
A 15-person team cut serious production incidents by 80% with a rotating duty slot before daily. No new tooling — just someone whose job it was to look.
Why code review takes a week
Slow review is almost never a motivation problem. One team cut PR wait time from a week to a day with a fixed hour and a WIP limit — no tooling, no policy documents.
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