Notes on product, platforms, workforce planning, and the systems that connect them. Some of this is tied to work I'm doing now. Some is lessons from the last 15 years. I use AI to help with structure and editing. The thinking is mine.
In 2015 I gave a talk to a room of business analysts about a role that was quietly shifting underneath them. Ten years later, I had lunch with a principal engineer at Nike and we landed on the same conversation, one rung up. Roles compress. The people who see it coming have time to adapt.
Read →In 2015, a small team spent two weeks building a product everyone loved. It never shipped. The build wasn't the hard part. The wall between "internal POC" and "deployed product" was. In 2026, I rebuilt it solo over a few evenings. The wall is shorter now, but it's not gone.
Read →Most workforce planning still treats talent as something you go get from outside. The better starting point is understanding what you already have — and building the systems and trust to make that visible.
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