Between Mondays
Honest field notes on running major IT programs: the governance, the politics, and the people problems the plan never mentions.
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 report broke during testing, three months into a program that was otherwise...
Recent essays
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...
Process & Standardization
Why the Gaps You Find Are the Point
A few months into any process improvement effort, someone on the team says some version of the same...
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.