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Agile at Enterprise Scale — What Changes When One Team Becomes Fifty

2026-08-13

Agile at Enterprise Scale — What Changes When One Team Becomes Fifty

Agile practices that work brilliantly for one team routinely break down when an enterprise tries to run fifty teams the same way. Scaling frameworks exist to solve exactly this problem — but most scaled agile transformations fail, not because the framework was wrong, but because the organisation adopted the ceremonies without the underlying operating model change. This post covers SAFe, LeSS, and Scrum@Scale, the failure modes that repeat across enterprises, and what the organisations that succeed do differently.

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The Diesel Bucket Brigade — How 25 People Carried a Data Center Through Hurricane Sandy, One Flight of Stairs at a Time

2026-08-12

The Diesel Bucket Brigade — How 25 People Carried a Data Center Through Hurricane Sandy, One Flight of Stairs at a Time

When Hurricane Sandy flooded the basement of 75 Broad Street in October 2012, it took out the building's 20,000-gallon fuel reserve and the pumps that fed it — leaving a Manhattan data center's last working generator running on a 200-gallon day tank, 17 flights up, with no elevators. What kept roughly 100 companies online for the next 24+ hours wasn't redundant infrastructure. It was 25 people, five-gallon buckets, and a decision to not let the story end there.

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FEAF — The Enterprise Architecture Framework Most Architects Have Never Studied

2026-08-06

FEAF — The Enterprise Architecture Framework Most Architects Have Never Studied

FEAF governs the enterprise architecture practice of the entire U.S. federal government — one of the largest, most complex IT estates on the planet — and most enterprise architects outside government have never opened it. This post covers what FEAF actually is, its six Consolidated Reference Models, the Collaborative Planning Methodology, and why its shared-services philosophy is worth understanding even if you will never work on a federal contract. It also announces a new interactive study guide covering the full framework.

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