Category: Team & Operations

Priority Whiplash: Why Your Best Engineers Are Updating Their CVs

Constant reprioritisation destroys engineering morale faster than anything else. If your team never finishes anything because leadership keeps changing direction, here's what's actually going wrong—and how to fix it.

Stop Overloading Your Roadmap: Why WIP Limits Are the Most Important Rule in Product Planning

Why the single most important rule for building great product roadmaps is limiting work in progress—and how WIP limits transform both delivery speed and stakeholder conversations.

Keeping The Lights On in Product Roadmaps

Stop pretending that 100% of your P&E team is doing feature development

Every engineering team must spend time on KTLO work—bug fixes, security patches, compliance updates, and technical debt. Yet many roadmaps assume 100% feature development. Here's why that's unrealistic and how to plan honestly.

Firebreak Sprints: When Your Entire Engineering Team Needs to Stop and Fix the Foundation

SonarQube just flagged 347 critical security vulnerabilities. Your DORA metrics are in the red. A threading bug is crashing microservices across the platform. Sometimes the whole team needs to stop feature work and fix the foundation. Learn how firebreak sprints work, when to call one, and how to insert them into your roadmap without destroying delivery commitments or losing stakeholder trust.

Size REALLY Matters: Finding the Squad Size Sweet Spot

Your Squads should be three developers, plus or minus two. Discover why squad size impacts planning effectiveness, why individual-level planning creates fragility, and how to structure teams for accountability and successful delivery.