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Getting a New Role
Artificial Intelligence
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Articles
Each article below is written to be practical and thought-provoking, offering readers clear takeaways they can apply to both their organisations and their own development.
50 Articles on AI, Technology, and Leadership
A collection of 50 articles spanning enterprise AI, Intent-Driven Development, architecture, executive coaching, and career growth, exploring the technical and human tensions that shape organisations and leadership.
Intent-Driven Development: Maturity Model
In today’s AI-accelerated world, the challenge isn’t whether technology can build software faster, it’s whether organisations can ensure that what gets built actually reflects human intent. Traditional maturity models tend to measure adoption by counting tools or automated outputs, but this risks conflating activity with alignment. True capability emerges not from the number of agents deployed, but from an organisation’s capacity to expand autonomy while preserving clarity, accountability and control.
Intent-Driven Development: Measuring Intent Fidelity
AI adoption doesn’t stall because teams lack capability – it stalls because leaders lack evidence. In Intent-Driven Development, intent fidelity becomes the control signal that replaces guesswork with data. By measuring how well AI implementations align with human intent, organisations earn the right to trust automation progressively. This is the difference between experimenting with AI and scaling it responsibly.
Intent-Driven Development via Multi-Agent Systems
Multi-agent systems are emerging as the next evolution in AI-powered development, but they don’t change how we should specify human intent. By separating intent from AI architecture, Intent-Driven Development ensures specifications remain stable, tool-agnostic, and future-proof, no matter how agents, models, or orchestration patterns evolve.
Why Intent-Driven Development Survives Rapid AI Model Evolution
As AI models evolve rapidly, frameworks tied to specific tools quickly become obsolete. This article explains why Intent-Driven Development (IDD) remains resilient by separating stable human intent and governance from fast-changing AI capabilities.
Intent-Driven Development: Human Gates in Agentic Flows for Enterprise AI Control
Intent-Driven Development based agentic flows show how to design enterprise AI systems with autonomous agents while retaining human control, accountability, and trust through explicit human-in-the-loop gates.
How Intent-Driven Development (IDD) Bridges UCD, DDD, BDD, and TDD in the AI Era
User-Centred Design, Domain-Driven Design, Behaviour-Driven Development and Test-Driven Development each solve part of the problem. In the AI era, Intent-Driven Development (IDD) brings them together by making intent explicit before automated systems turn ideas into working software.
Intent-Driven Development (IDD)
We’ve moved from being limited by what technology can do to being constrained by how clearly we can express what we want. With agentic AI capable of building almost anything at breakneck speed, the real question becomes: are we asking for the right thing?
Direction – Back from your Future Part III
Plans change. Pressure mounts. Certainty disappears. In Part III, discover how returning to a future perspective helps you stay oriented even when the path shifts beneath your feet.
Preflecting – Back from your Future Part II
Discover how preflecting from the future helps quiet noise, shape small decisions, and guide direction with clarity rather than pressure
Preflection – Back from your Future Part I
Most people reflect on the year that’s ending. Far fewer take time to reflect from the future. Preflection invites you to imagine life at the end of the year, and use that perspective to shape the choices you’re making today
The Value of Code in the AI Era
The arrival of higher-level languages, low-code platforms, cloud computing, and now artificial intelligence have all been framed as moments where “programmers” would become obsolete. And yet, code has not only survived each transition, it has become more valuable,...
Should I Leave My Job?
Frustration and logic might say “go,” whilst loyalty or purpose whisper “stay.” This article explores how to recognise when your heart has truly left, the risks of jumping too soon, and how to plan your next move intentionally, with clarity, confidence, and readiness
Securing a New Role
Securing a New Role explores how to find the right (IT) role, apply successfully, ace interviews and coding tests, and finish strong – everything you need to secure your next role
The Chaos of Change
Change is the one constant in organisational life. New technologies, shifting markets, and evolving customer expectations demand that businesses continually adapt. Yet, despite its inevitability, organisational change is something most organisations still do badly….
Behaving Tactically Versus Strategically
Tactical fixes feel urgent, but without strategy they lead to burnout, debt, and stagnation. Drawing on 25+ years of tech and coaching, this article explores why leaders default to tactics and how to balance short-term action with long-term impact.