Articles
Every essay published on Between Mondays, gathered in one place. Field notes on running technology programs, leading teams, and holding steady while everything around you changes.
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...
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...
Communication & Decision-Making
The Story Behind the Decision
How we communicate complex work, and earn the trust to lead through it There is a particular moment...
Change & Transformation Leadership
Why Transformation Feels Slow
Most people expect change to feel like change. They imagine a clear before and after, a moment where...