Engineering Culture
Rare knowledge doesn't feel rare
Nobody can hand you a list of what only they know. Knowledge transfer before an engineer leaves starts in your own systems: they already record who to ask.
Engineering Culture
Engineering Culture
More architecture won't move the objection
Technical objections survive better architecture when a stakeholder measures a new system with a requirement learned somewhere else.
Automation
Automate what your attention can't change
The work you watch out of habit should run without you. Automation's job: make that true and hand back the attention the watching was quietly costing.
Engineering Culture
Reasoning the team can't rerun leaves with the engineer
Team capability transfer holds only when the team can rerun the reasoning themselves. What lives only in the engineer's head leaves with them.
Team Transformation
Cultural transformation has an error budget
Each practice is a component cutover. The team's own metrics are the SLIs. Regressions consume error budget. Culture shifts as a downstream consequence.