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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.
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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
A collaboration with Matthew Skelton on extending Social Decision Records and Team APIs as complementary practices for capturing the human side of team boundaries and interactions.
2025
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).
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Technical reviewer for the same O'Reilly book. Published in InfoQ eMagazine 2025.
Featured Talk
All talks →VirtualDDD · 2026
A conversation on Domain-Driven Design, sociotechnical architecture, and the organisational dimensions of software design.
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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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