Practical notes from delivery work: engineering, clients, and running software.
Discovery is short, structured, and outcome-driven: confirm goals, map constraints, identify unknowns, and propose a safe first slice.
Docs should answer: what it does, how to run it, how to deploy it, and where it breaks.…
Estimate in ranges, separate unknowns from known work, and review weekly. Precision theatre is how timelines die.
Define success, confirm rollback plan, verify monitoring, and test the happy path plus the top failure modes. Launching…
Keep integration points explicit. Use contracts (schemas), retries, idempotency, and monitoring. ‘It works on my machine’ is not…
Give context, constraints, access, and success criteria. The best brief is a clear problem statement plus examples of…