AIleadership
AI Adoption Is an Organisational Problem
Most engineering teams are treating AI adoption as a tooling question. It's not. The hard part isn't picking the right model — it's redesigning how the team works around it.
Apr 2025
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Architecture
is a people
problem.
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
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Holistic Engineering
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
sociotechnicalarchitecture
A Primer on Sociotechnical Architecture
Software architecture and organisation design are not separate disciplines. They never were. This is the mental model I use to think about both at once.
Mar 2024
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Social Decision Records: Capturing the Human Context of Architectural Decisions
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
Social Decision Records (SDRs)
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
Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems
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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