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Occasional writing when there's something worth saying. No schedule, no filler.
2026
ANAO found Land 400 Phase 3's schedule reporting overstates progress and obscures slippage. The finding traces to a procurement departure that was not clearly communicated to government. When the delivery model changes, three things need to reset.
Uber's AI coding spend hit enterprise software scale before anyone built procurement governance for it. Three questions PMs should check in their 2026 cost baselines.
When AI compresses build time, the bottleneck doesn't disappear. It moves upstream to requirements. And in COTS delivery, requirements were already the hard part.
Integration projects don't fail because of HL7 or FHIR. They fail because nobody designed the governance for a programme where three vendors share a boundary and none of them own it.
What actually happens when you walk into a programme that's RED — and the three structural patterns you have to find before anything else.
Contract management and business relationship ownership are different functions. Most organisations conflate them — and the vendor benefits.
When one person enforces quality, manages the relationship, and holds the budget — the vendor wins every argument.
A structured email system for delivery leaders who process 200 emails a day and still need time to think.
The word for what's missing in toxic workplaces — and how to get it back.