Entrowise Blog
Insights on software delivery, technology leadership, and the PPA Method.
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Your Priorities Are Clear. Your Trade-offs Are Not.
Here is a conversation that happens in most technology organizations at least once a quarter. A senior stakeholder walks into a planning meeting with a new initiative. It is urgent. There is a real business reason behind it. The ask is reasonable: "Can we fit this in?" The room looks at the backlog. Nobody wants to say what fitting it in actually means. So they say yes. The initiative joins the list. The list now has nine things on it instead of eight. What just happened to items three through
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Types of Software Delivery Problems
After working with dozens of software delivery organizations, I believe almost every delivery problem falls into one of three categories. Most leaders know two of them well. The third is where careers get stuck. The first is the Technical Problem. Something is wrong with how the solution is designed, built, or verified. A flaw in the architecture. A gap in test coverage. A coding decision that made sense at the time and is now causing pain. These problems are visible, diagnosable, and the ind
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The Constraint Nobody Is Talking About
Why software delivery keeps failing for reasons everyone can see but nobody names I have sat in hundreds of delivery reviews over the past two decades. Retrospectives, quarterly planning sessions, post-mortems, leadership offsites. The problems on the whiteboard change. The faces around the table change. The tools, the frameworks, the vocabulary — all of it changes. The problems do not. Same missed commitments. Same coordination failures. Same gap between what gets built and what the business