Every organization has a moment when something goes wrong and the first question asked is, “Whose fault was this?” If the answer isn’t immediately clear, your RACI matrix has failed at its primary job. And if the answer points to someone who never had the authority to prevent the failure, your RACI is worse than […]
Culture
The Hidden Tax of Bad Architecture
Every organization pays two technology budgets. The first appears on your financial statements: infrastructure, licenses, engineers. The second is invisible: the complexity tax on every project, every feature, every maintenance task. McKinsey research puts this hidden cost at 20 to 40 percent of an organization’s entire technology estate. Not a rounding error. A material portion […]
Why Broken Windows Lead to Broken Software
A single unpatched vulnerability. One function that violates your architecture. A test suite nobody trusts. These small compromises don’t stay small. The Broken Windows Theory, originally developed to explain urban decay, offers a powerful lens for understanding why some codebases remain clean while others descend into chaos. The principle is simple: visible signs of neglect […]
Architecture as Culture
Building Software That Stands Good architecture is not a diagram on a wiki page. It is not a committee’s quarterly pronouncement. It is a shared instinct. It is a collective reflex that fires whenever someone proposes a shortcut, ignores a boundary, or conflates convenience with simplicity. Organizations that treat architecture as a deliverable end up […]