Engineering Leadership

Engineering Leadership

Twenty years of leading engineering teams, mostly in banks, taught me that the hard part is rarely the code. This is where I write about the people part — plainly, and including the calls I got wrong.

Engineering Leadership · 10 Jul 2026

The Pareto Trap: why 80/20 thinking breaks down in IT delivery

A delivery leader's honest take on documentation, governance, and the effort we love to hate — when the Pareto principle works in IT delivery, when it inverts, and when it is quietly irrelevant.