Working Together at Scale

Multiple teams, distributed work, 5,000+ subscribers. The practices that keep a growing engineering organisation aligned and effective.

Part 1 · est. 15 September

Ensemble Programming: The Team Navigates, the LLM Types

Tom builds the substitution upgrade alone in two days. It's beautiful. It's wrong in three ways. Charlotte says two words that land like cold water.

Part 2 · est. 22 September

Cynefin: Not Everything Needs a Workshop

Simple, complicated, complex, chaotic — the framework that tells you which approach to use and when to stop over-thinking.

Part 3 · est. 29 September

Threat Modelling: What the LLM Didn't Think About

Payment data, customer PII, farm contracts. The more code LLMs generate, the more systematic security thinking matters.

Part 4 · est. 6 October

Continuous Discovery: Making It Stick

Discovery isn't a project phase — it's a weekly practice. Lee and Charlotte meet for coffee. Tom arrives late. Dave and Maya meet at the farmers' market where it all started.

Part 5 · est. 13 October

From Weekly Habits to Yearly Vision

Freshly gets acquired by Coles. The board wants a twelve-month plan. And at the Margaret River farmers' market, Dave is selling zucchini next to the GreenBox stall.