Insights

Writing from the practice

What we have learned from building, rescuing, and auditing large technology estates – argued in the open, with the objections included.

Why most enterprise architecture fails – and the narrow version that does not

EA fails when it becomes documentation. The narrow, decision-centred version that works – from veteran practitioners.

The project healthcheck: what a truthful one looks like, and why most are theatre

Most programme healthchecks are theatre. The anatomy of one that finds the truth – and why independence is the whole point.

AI in the enterprise estate: an architect's view of what is load-bearing and what is décor

An architect's framework for separating AI investments that carry weight from those that decorate – before the spend, not after.