Between Mondays
Honest field notes on running major IT programs: the governance, the politics, and the people problems the plan never mentions.
When the Vendor Relationship Gets Strained
The contract says what they owe you. It says nothing about what happens when the relationship is the thing actually at risk. A vendor relationship gets strained the same way...
Recent essays
Escalation & Judgment Calls
Escalate or Absorb: A Framework for the Call Nobody Wants to Make
You are not deciding the outcome. You are deciding who needs to see the problem clearly enough to...
Measuring Progress on Long Programs
Measuring Progress When Milestones Don’t Show Up in a Status Report
The status report said nothing moved that week. The status report was wrong about what mattered. Eight months...
Resistance, Trust & Skepticism
Why Stakeholders Resist Change (and Why That’s Not the Problem)
Resistance is not the obstacle. It is the clearest requirements document you will get for free. A downstream...
I’m Brad. I’ve spent more than 25 years in public sector management and leadership, and I currently lead a major technology modernization program for a state agency.
Between Mondays grew out of the Friday messages I wrote to my own team. It’s written for steady, team-first leaders doing the unglamorous work of holding things together while an organization changes around them.
The theme I keep coming back to is the gap between what we intend and what people actually experience. I try to own my side of that gap before I write about anyone else’s.