Tag: Technology Leadership

Your On-Call Log Is Your Real Org Chart.
Your On-Call Log Is Your Real Org Chart.

Why on-call rotation data is the most accurate org chart your engineering organisation has — and almost nobody uses it to make structural decisions.

Architecture Patterns That Travel Across Industries
Architecture Patterns That Travel Across Industries

The patterns that solve your hardest distributed systems problems were already solved — in a submarine, a postal sorting office, and an electrical panel. Most architects never look.

Decision Rights for Technology — Who Decides What in a Modern Enterprise
Decision Rights for Technology — Who Decides What in a Modern Enterprise

Why most enterprises confuse escalation ladders with decision rights — and how Technology Decision Domain Architecture maps exactly who decides what, at which altitude, before the conflict arrives.

Run Event Storming Twice. The First Maps the System. The Second Exposes Governance.
Run Event Storming Twice. The First Maps the System. The Second Exposes Governance.

Why the second run of an Event Storming workshop — the one most teams never attempt — is the fastest way to surface governance gaps that architecture diagrams will never show.

Your Architecture Diagrams Are Lying to You
Your Architecture Diagrams Are Lying to You

Why architecture diagrams describe a system that no longer exists, and how Observable Architecture uses production telemetry to reveal what is actually running.