Engineering Leadership

“No known bugs” tells you where someone looked, not how the system behaves. Cloudflare’s worst outage in six years had no typo in it. Here is what to write instead.

Most delivery dates fail before they’re spoken. They fail because someone treats a date as an input to planning, when it should be the output of one. The six-question test to tell the difference.

Most projects don’t fail on execution. They fail because there was never a strategy to execute - just a wish wearing strategy’s clothes. Outcome = Strategy × Tactics, and zero times anything is zero.

Code review for the AI era. Five concrete shifts, anchored on the principles that didn’t change. PR template and reviewer prompt included.

Five ownership gaps that silently kill projects - and the questions to ask before writing a single line of code.