Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
28 Apr 2025
We had the developer. The timeline. The budget. What we didn’t have was a network that could handle an outsider. One week, six provisioning tickets, and an Office 365 license later, we gave up. Not because the work wasn’t needed, but because our infrastructure couldn’t flex. That project should’ve been a win. Instead, it became a lesson.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
21 Apr 2025
Too many teams chase perfection and stall out. They wait for the cleanest implementation, the most elegant abstraction, the ideal architecture. Only to watch the feature miss its moment. But the truth is, the only code that matters is the code that ships.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
14 Apr 2025
After months of circling it, I was finally beginning to understand how OKRs might work for our team. Not as a checkbox or another dashboard. But as a way to create alignment without micromanagement. Clarity without control. They gave shape to a kind of outcome-focused leadership that I want to keep practicing. The kind that starts with intent, and trusts the team to chart the path.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
07 Apr 2025
Most roadmaps don’t fail because they’re wrong. They fail because they were never really tied to why the business needed them in the first place.I’ve seen that gap, between the big goals in the boardroom and the stories sprinted through by dev teams, swallow weeks, months and even whole years. And not for lack of talent. Just a lack of translation.