Blog – Random Thoughts on Leadership & Technology

21 Aug, 2026 Trouble in ParadAIse
20 Aug, 2026 The Factor of Safety Nobody Budgets For
18 Aug, 2026 Markdown - All the Way Down
16 Aug, 2026 Engineering Failures and What We Have Learned from Them
09 Aug, 2026 Leadership Lessons in the Rain
05 Aug, 2026 The Collapse of the SDLC
01 Aug, 2026 Kanbanize Now!
30 Jul, 2026 Eudaimonia-Driven Development
27 Jul, 2026 What Motivates People - Great Speeches of History
25 Jul, 2026 Secret Uses of the Cosine They Don't Want You to Know About 😉
22 Jul, 2026 The Toxic Billable Hour
18 Jul, 2026 The Open-Soruce Big Bang
16 Jul, 2026 It's the Harness, not the Horse - on How AI Models are Commoditizing
14 Jul, 2026 Why You Need an AI Skills Registry in Your Company
12 Jul, 2026 The Quiet Theft of Purpose
09 Jul, 2026 Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Manual
06 Jul, 2026 The Goose That Could Not Lay a Trillion Dollars
05 Jul, 2026 People in the Agentic Loop
03 Jul, 2026 Tokenomics are Coming
30 Jun, 2026 We Were Worried About the Wrong Aspect of AI
26 Jun, 2026 The Brave New Barbeque and the End of Business Analysis As We Know It
24 Jun, 2026 TRIZ or How to Mass-Produce Genius
22 Jun, 2026 The Surprising Return of Manual QA
18 Jun, 2026 Mythos Was Dangerous But Not How We Thought
13 Jun, 2026 When You See "Consciousness" on an SEC S-1 Form - Run!
12 Jun, 2026 The Stochastic Parrot
06 Jun, 2026 The AI Automation Paradox - an ATM Story
01 Jun, 2026 Meet MOA - the new SOA
27 May, 2026 What Makes a Good Leader?
14 May, 2026 The Invisible AI Bill
09 May, 2026 Aperitif from the Poisoned Cup or Why You Always Start With Risk
06 May, 2026 Waterfall 2.0
29 Apr, 2026 Building Agentic Governance Framework in Organizations
25 Apr, 2026 The SaaS Transition Manifesto
24 Apr, 2026 The AI Governance Problem
21 Apr, 2026 Hype Cycles - Collective Dunning-Kruger
19 Apr, 2026 Self-Service Analytics Take-Two
12 Apr, 2026 The AI Software Dark Factory is Coming
05 Apr, 2026 Executives Vibe Coding - The New "It Works On My Machine" Problem
01 Apr, 2026 Cloud killed architectural patterns, now AI is killing coding patterns
28 Mar, 2026 The End of Build vs Subscribe Dilemma
22 Mar, 2026 The Productivity Paradox - Where Do AI Gains Go in a Time-and-Materials World?
22 Mar, 2026 Agentic Engineering is All About Change Management
21 Mar, 2026 Digital Sovereignty and The Big EU Digital Future
14 Mar, 2026 The Pillars of Success
03 Mar, 2026 Low-Code No-Code and Why it has not Conquered the World
25 Feb, 2026 Aesthetics and Good Taste in Software Engineering
22 Feb, 2026 Did AI Kill Agile?
16 Feb, 2026 On Meetings
15 Jan, 2026 The Sum of Your Habits
29 Dec, 2025 The Dark Walled Bazaar - Open-Source in the World of Today
12 Dec, 2025 Be, Know, Do
22 Nov, 2025 Stay Humble. Stay Curious
18 Nov, 2025 The Five Stages of Collapse of Planned Economy. An AI Story
22 Oct, 2025 Ethos, Pathos, Logos in Software Engineering
17 Oct, 2025 Innovation as a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
10 Oct, 2025 Zen of Python
04 Oct, 2025 Building Reliability for Mission-Critical Software - NASA’s “Power of 10” Coding Principles
27 Sep, 2025 Clearing Mental Turbulence - Five Hazardous Attitudes That Crash Projects and Planes
18 Sep, 2025 The 11 Principles of Leadership
10 Sep, 2025 The Mythical Man-Month - Half a Century Later
31 Aug, 2025 Ownership Will Neither be a Commodity nor Automated
30 Aug, 2025 The Real Impact of AI in Software Engineering
25 Aug, 2025 Keep Your Ego in Check
23 Aug, 2025 Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?
19 Aug, 2025 The Evolution of Service Engagement Models
14 Aug, 2025 Self-Service - A Tale of Caution
05 Aug, 2025 The Scribe's Oath in the Age of AI
01 Aug, 2025 Would You Like Some Copilot With That?
25 Jul, 2025 Triage
20 Jul, 2025 Cutting Through the Cone of Uncertainty
19 Jul, 2025 Are We a Failure of an Industry?
18 Jul, 2025 Crew Resource Management Saves Lives
17 Jul, 2025 Information Theory for Managers
16 Jul, 2025 Le Petit Caporale in Software Engineering
15 Jul, 2025 Aviate, Navigate, Communicate
14 Jul, 2025 Do Not Build Foundations
13 Jul, 2025 The Vietnam of Computer Science 20 Years On
12 Jul, 2025 The Pareto Principle in Sofware Engineering and Why it Matters
11 Jul, 2025 SaaS - Crack Cocaine for Enterprises
10 Jul, 2025 Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit 20 Years Later - and It Never Will
09 Jul, 2025 The Coming Demographic Crisis in IT and Digital Engineering
06 Jul, 2025 The Enterprise Tech Trap
30 Jun, 2025 Start with Pen and Paper
20 Jun, 2025 Why Technology Strategies Fail
18 Jun, 2025 AI, Economics and Environment
15 Jun, 2025 Software Architecture - A Closer Look at What Makes It Work
14 Jun, 2025 Software Architecture is Like Beauty
13 Jun, 2025 Software Architecture - More Than a Definition - Mapping the Essence of a Concept
11 Jun, 2025 The Future of Quantum Computing
10 Jun, 2025 Career and Technology Choices in Software Development: Where to Start?
09 Jun, 2025 How Does AI Change Tech Trends?
08 Jun, 2025 The Big Misconception About Quantum Computing
07 Jun, 2025 The AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution
06 Jun, 2025 Where Are We in the AI Bubble?
05 Jun, 2025 Get Into Fashion or Get Extinct
04 Jun, 2025 Software Architecture as a Web of Interconnected NFRs
03 Jun, 2025 Back to Basics
02 Jun, 2025 Agile vs the agile manifesto
01 Jun, 2025 Simplicity-Complexity Cycles in Software Engineering