Between Mondays
Honest field notes on running major IT programs: the governance, the politics, and the people problems the plan never mentions.
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 into a legacy system replacement, I asked for a progress update ahead...
Recent essays
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...
Shared Understanding & Team Alignment
The Power of Shared Understanding
How alignment isn’t created in isolation. It’s built through communication and coordinated clarity. Two team leads sat in...
Partnership & Stakeholder Alignment
Start With Their Picture of Success
The strongest collaborations do not start with a plan. They start with a question. What does success look...
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.