A Week in the Seat: What a Fractional Integrator Actually Does, Day by Day
A Fractional Integrator is easy to describe badly. "Runs meetings." "Follows up with people." "Helps operations." None of those explanations really…
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When Not to Hire a Fractional Integrator (and What to Do Instead)
A Fractional Integrator can help when execution keeps breaking between teams. But sometimes hiring one is the wrong move. The company may have a pro…
The Death of the Sampling Shelter: Why Full-Population AI Audits Will Expose Fragile Product Teams
The death of the sampling shelter means that enterprise systems and product workflows will no longer be evaluated through small, forgiving statistic…
Profit & Loss (P&L) for Engineering Leaders
Most engineering leaders can tell you their sprint velocity, their deployment frequency, and their open incident count. Far fewer can tell you what…
Managing Cross-Functional Teams: A Practical Guide for Engineering Leaders
Cross-functional teams are where most modern software gets built. Product defines the problem, design shapes the experience, engineering builds the…
How Engineering Team Structure Shapes Software Delivery
An engineering team can have experienced developers, a clear backlog, and regular sprint meetings while still struggling to ship. Sometimes the miss…
I Ran My Career Like a Production System for 12 Weeks. The Dashboard Was Wrong Before I Was.
For 25 years I've been the person in the room asking to see the data. In incident reviews, in planning meetings, in one-on-ones with engineers who w…
Your Team Got Faster With AI. Why Is Your First Move a Layoff?
Suppose your implementation team finally gets an AI workflow working. It produces useful first drafts of integrations, catches routine mistakes, and…
People: Bus Factor, Expectations and Day One
Part of the "How to bring order to a project" series — the people track. It comes after infrastructure and architecture not because it matters less,…
Stop Optimizing for Output: Why Software Engineering is a Discovery Problem
Most engineering organizations misdiagnose software delivery as a production problem. They treat building software like operating a factory: crank t…
The Three Parallel Workstreams: How Design, Build, and Test Start on Day One Without Colliding
Episode 3 of the AI-Augmented Parallel SDLC series. The pillar article laid out the blueprint: discover once, run three workstreams in parallel, con…
How to Bring Order to a Project: A Track Map
Every now and then I join a project where "everything works, but nobody dares to touch it." Deployment is done by hand from memory, the architecture…
Standing orders: who decides when the decision-maker is off the grid
Standing orders are pre-authorized decisions, in writing, with limits: what the on-call may do ALONE while the decision-maker is unreachable. Withou…
You Aren't Choosing an AI Tool. You're Choosing Who Gets Paged at 2 AM.
Part of AI Leadership in the Real World — how leaders turn scattered pilots into governed, adopted, measurable capability. TLDR: A support agent doi…
Agentic Methods for a Tech Lead
Agentic Methods: Coding With AI Agents, Designing For Agents TL;DR "Agentic methods" covers two distinct things colliding right now: AI agents that…
Sometimes the Fastest System Is the One Willing to Stop
There is a particular kind of meeting every engineer eventually attends. A metric is projected onto a screen. It has moved in the wrong direction. S…
AI Operating Model: Why Scaling AI Is an Organisational Design Problem
AI adoption is getting easier. Scaling AI is not. Models are more capable. APIs are easier to access. Copilots can be deployed quickly. Teams can pr…
The Fastest Way to Become a Senior Engineer Is to Make Yourself Replaceable
Why helping everyone around you grow is still the fastest path to career growth—even in the age of AI. Introduction One of the best pieces of career…
Technology Is Rarely the Only Constraint
A technology problem rarely stays a technology problem for very long. A platform may need to scale. A product may need to move faster. An organisati…
AI Is Everywhere Except the Balance Sheet
Originally published on lavkesh.com Most companies today will tell you they are doing something with artificial intelligence, that it is woven into…
AI Predictions, August 2026
For the past two months or so, I've been working on a variety of AI development projects rather than writing -- writing skills, plugins, workflows,…
Leadership Mistakes We Put Into Production Before Lunch
Six management failures we shipped alongside perfectly valid infrastructure changes. At 11:42 on Monday, the billing-export pull request had four ap…
The Kitchen Doesn't Care About Your Excuses
There is a moment in every high-stakes environment when something goes completely, objectively wrong, and the only viable response is to keep workin…
We Will Get You Through It!
There is a comedy sketch from Bob & Tom that starts with a hilariously impossible promise: overnight delivery by train, from New York to Los Ang…
My type of #FractionalCTO
Let's begin this with, what is a #FractionalCTO? A Fractional CTO is an experienced, executive-level technology leader who provides strategic guidan…
Error Budget Policies That Hold Leadership Accountable
Error budgets are useless without a policy. 'We're out of error budget' should trigger consequences. If it doesn't, you don't have an error budget —…
Who owns the pager?
I hate on-call. I hate doing it, and I hate asking other people to do it, which is a slightly awkward position to hold when you've spent a decent ch…
AI Made Prototyping Free. That Is Exactly Why Your Portfolio Strategy Matters Now.
Part of the "AI Leadership in the Real World" series: how leaders turn AI from scattered pilots and executive excitement into governed, adopted, mea…
Boards Focus On Risk, Resilience, and Operational Realities: Where NHI Governance Fits In
Boards Focus On Risk, Resilience, and Operational Realities: Where NHI Governance Fits In Learn how GitGuardian helps boards and CISOs align on cybe…
Incident Command: The Skills They Don't Teach You
Running a production incident is a skill. Most of the skill isn't technical. Here's what nobody told me when I started running incidents. Skill 1: C…