FN-014Delivery
Slow onboarding is a warning sign, not a normal cost
Most teams accept that the first month of a project is wasted. Most of that month can be saved — and what is left tells you something important.
2026.06.18Rosalind Okafor3 min
PG-04Blog6 articles
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FN-014Delivery
Slow onboarding is a warning sign, not a normal cost
Most teams accept that the first month of a project is wasted. Most of that month can be saved — and what is left tells you something important.
2026.06.18Rosalind Okafor3 min
FN-013AI
Write the test before you write the AI feature
The difference between an AI demo and an AI product is not the model. It is whether anyone can tell when the answers get worse.
2026.05.29Nils Aerts2 min
FN-012Organisation
The hidden cost of running two processes
When an outside team brings its own way of working, someone has to translate between the two. It is never the outside team.
2026.05.07Ines Halvorsen2 min
FN-011Organisation
Why we do not put junior engineers on client work
Staffing projects with junior engineers is the standard way this industry makes money. Here is what it really costs, and why we do not do it.
2026.04.16Ines Halvorsen1 min
FN-010Design
Design how it behaves, not just how it looks
A design that only shows the perfect case has handed every hard decision to the engineer, at the worst possible moment.
2026.03.24Clara Mensah1 min
FN-009Engineering
A good handover is written, not a meeting
Knowledge transfer sessions transfer very little. What survives a project is whatever got written down while the decision was still being argued about.
2026.02.27Devesh Raman1 min