One of the easiest mistakes to make with AI is to confuse more output with more delivery. A developer completes a change faster. More pull requests are opened. More code is generated. More work reaches “dev complete.” From a distance, that looks lik...

AI is entering software delivery faster than most organizations can evaluate what it is actually improving. Code generation is easier. Pull requests can be drafted faster. Tests can be suggested automatically. Build failures can be summarized. Telem...

For years, software architecture has been treated as a kind of professional hygiene — important, yes, but often overshadowed by shipping features, meeting deadlines, and keeping the CI pipeline green. AI changes that. Suddenly, architecture isn’t ju...

Software organizations are constantly searching for something they struggle to name. They want delivery to be faster, but not reckless. They want quality without slowing everything down. They want predictability without pretending estimates are cert...

There is a particular kind of anxiety that appears in software organizations just before a production deployment. The release window has been scheduled carefully. QA has completed its validation. The right engineers are standing by. Dashboards are o...

Looking back, I can see that I spent a big part of my career collecting the ideas that would eventually become Confidence Engineering™. One of the moments that stuck with me came when I saw Ryan Ripley say, “story points are trash.” At the time, tha...