Planning for the Unknown, Within Reason
How to leave room for plausible business changes while keeping speculative flexibility, discovery work, and present delivery costs in proportion.
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Zoom In, Zoom Out: Reasoning About Software Systems
Using individual capabilities and complete business workflows together to understand a system, expose missing decisions, and judge whether its pieces actually fit.
“All the Lego Pieces Are Around”: How I Approach Feature Estimates
How I use existing capabilities to reason about feature timelines, separating reuse from adaptation, new work, and the unknowns that need investigation.
Configuration Beats Code Only When Variation Is Bounded
A decision framework for moving business rules into governed configuration without creating an untyped programming language that nobody can operate safely.
Membership Reconciliation: When an Audit Stops at 10,000 Records
How a silent 10,000-record cap, ambiguous identities, and competing sources of truth changed a production membership reconciliation.