23 posts tagged with "agentic-patterns"

Readiness at Portfolio Scale argued that governance is a finite resource and must be triaged by consequence. This post confronts the next constraint: even well-triaged governance can become a bottleneck when the delivery pace is set by agents, not humans. Sau Sheong Chang identified decision speed as the binding constraint in AI-augmented development. The readiness framework tells you what to govern. This post asks how fast governance can move without becoming a rubber stamp.

Shaping, Not Just Shipping closed the series with a one-page self-assessment and three questions for a leadership team. That works when you are looking at one workflow. It breaks when you are looking at forty — each at a different point on the scope-readiness grid, each owned by a different team, each evolving at its own pace. This post asks what readiness discipline looks like when the unit of governance is not a single deployment but a portfolio.

Less Queue, More Craft argued that when agents handle implementation throughput, human work shifts toward judgment - strategy, coherence, and the bridge from prototype to production. The Other Dimension gave that judgment a structure: four readiness components sitting alongside capability as a second dimension. This post asks what craft actually is in that frame - and why shaping is a better word than "shipping" for the work that remains.