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I treat architecture, organisation design, and engineering culture as one problem. Currently focused on how engineering organisations adopt and scale AI.
Social Decision Records
Featured in O'Reilly's Facilitating Software Architecture
Latest Writing
View all →The questions raised by AI agents are not new. The tools are new. The dilemmas underneath them have been with us for three thousand years — and Hesiod mapped them precisely.
Jun 2026
The annual InfoQ architecture trends magazine — my Holistic Engineering article opens the issue, framing the year's themes around sociotechnical thinking and organic problem solving.
Dec 2025
Why treating engineering as a purely technical discipline creates invisible failure modes — and how expanding your model to include the organisational and social systems changes everything.
Jan 2025
Architecture decisions are social before they are technical. Social Decision Records capture who was in the room, what was the political context, and what constraints were invisible — the things that ADRs were never designed to hold.
Jun 2023
Flagship Work
A practice for capturing the human and organisational context behind architectural decisions — not just the technical rationale. Featured in Facilitating Software Architecture (O'Reilly, 2024).
Also
Technical reviewer for the same O'Reilly book. Published in InfoQ eMagazine 2025.
Featured Talk
All talks →QCon London · 2025
Why treating engineering as a purely technical discipline fails — and what happens when you include the human, organisational, and social systems in your engineering model.
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Available for consulting engagements, advisory roles, and speaking. If you're navigating a hard problem at the intersection of engineering and organisation design, I'd like to hear about it.
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