The overengineering tax: when three tiers cost more than one
Because that's a real failure mode, and it's the one nobody warns you about. Everyone warns you about doing too little. This is about doing too much, and calling it rigour.
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The Chapter, and the Company It Keeps
Four weeks ago I put a claim on this blog: trust in software is produced, not felt. Last week I named the four ways AI-assisted delivery quietly stops producing it, and I promised that this post would do something different — walk through what is actually inside the chapter.
Is the token even the right unit of account?
The arc ended on a stage: what a room of testers did to the thesis
CAST 2026 - Open season: what a room full of sceptics taught me about the quality gate
I Wrote a Chapter About Trust. A Machine Helped Me Test the Argument.
I lost my favourite tool and shipped faster anyway
BowSmith, one feature, fully orchestrated: the case study
Library
Re-post: "Leading In An Unpredictable World"
> Three ways business leaders can drive both growth and innovation in today’s
fast-evolving and unpredictable environment.By Jim Witham
[https://chiefexecutive.net/author/jimwitham1/] -September 24, 2021
> Innovation can—and does—happen anywhere and at any time.
> During the height of the pandemic, many businesses
Re-Post: "Changing Others Is The Most Important Capability A Leader Can Develop"
Re-post: "Selenium PageObjects and PageFactory"
Re-Post: "Software Testing is Evolving, Here's How"
Re-post: "Skills as a System"
Re-post: 16 best products of CES 2020 by Business insider
Re-share: 7 Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals
Agile Teaming
The Complete AI Orchestration Journey: From Claude Web Chat to Production iOS App
The reference notes I wrote in November 2025, before BowSmith shipped: four phases, the original 17-agent team, the prompt template that cut context drift, and the failures. Lightly updated, with pointers to where the thinking went next.
Agile Lean Ireland, Dublin 2019
Konferencja testerzy.pl, Gdansk 2019
"Let's solve IT" mentoring
Re-share: Releasing agility in teams
Re-share: Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
Re-share: Adapting Agile For Part-Time Teams
Lean Testing
The Speed Trap: AI Made Us Faster Than We Can Justify
Last Saturday I promised a deeper look at what actually changes when AI enters the delivery lifecycle. This is it.
The short version: the hard part is no longer producing software. It is being able to say, with evidence, why the software you just produced is safe to ship.
I Wrote a Chapter About Trust. A Machine Helped Me Test the Argument.
The Critical Role of Software Maturity: Beyond Code Quality to Strategic Excellence
QA & Test - much more than just Embedded Software Conference in Bilbao Spain.
KPIs, dashboards and metrics
Re-Post: "Software Testing is Evolving, Here's How"
