INSIGHTS
Notes from practice.
What we learn on projects, we write down: decision guides, cost questions and practical tools for IT decisions in small and mid-sized companies. Short, concrete, without buzzwords.
Cloud · Guide · 5 MIN
Cloud Costs Under Control: FinOps for Small and Mid-Sized Companies
Cloud bills don't have to be a surprise. Five habits to make costs visible, set budgets, and keep the cloud as flexible as it was promised to be.
June 15, 2026
Strategy · Guide · 7 MIN
Off-the-Shelf or Custom-Built? An Honest Decision Guide
Buy or build? The question decides years of cost and dependency. A decision framework from real project work — without the sales pitch.
May 12, 2026
Engineering · Guide · 4 MIN
Interfaces First: Why Clean APIs Speed Up Every Project
Systems come and go — the connections between them remain. Why in integration projects we talk about interfaces first and about systems only afterwards.
April 20, 2026
Engineering · Guide · 5 MIN
Built Good Enough: Why Small Firms Don't Need Enterprise Architecture
A 50-person firm gets an architecture built for billions of users and ends up managing more servers than orders. Why oversized technology is a mistake and what an honestly scaled solution looks like.
April 14, 2026
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
Small Wins, Real Momentum: Change in Resistant Teams
The big sweeping overhaul paralyzes organizations instead of modernizing them. Why teams resist wholesale change and how you build real momentum with tiny, fast wins.
February 17, 2026
Cloud · Guide · 5 MIN
Lift-and-Shift: Why the Cloud Bill Explodes After the Move
Twenty years of legacy servers pushed one-to-one into the cloud, and the monthly bill multiplies. Why a quick move drives costs up instead of saving, and how a lean interim step prevents it.
December 16, 2025
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
Measuring AI: Value, Not Activity
Thousands of lines of AI-generated code and delivery still stalls. Why the amount of code produced says nothing about productivity, and how to measure the real value of AI tools.
October 14, 2025
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
AI Expectation Meets Reality: Why Autonomous Automation Fails on People
One report read, one instruction given: AI should fully automate purchasing. Why such top-down mandates shatter against reality and how you turn the expectation into real value.
July 15, 2025
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
The Hero in the Server Room: Why a Single Person Is a Risk
When all your operational knowledge sits in a single head, a day of vacation becomes a business risk. Why independence from the individual developer is the real goal.
May 13, 2025
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
Fending Off Feature Creep: How to Protect a Project's Momentum
Just before the finish, the spontaneous extra request from the top often arrives — and pushes the launch back by months. How a phase-2 concept rescues momentum without killing the idea.
March 18, 2025
Engineering · Guide · 5 MIN
The Mirror Principle: Software That Follows Space, Not the Alphabet
An app that sorts inventory alphabetically fights the spatial thinking of the people who work with it. Why an interface should follow physical reality.
January 14, 2025
Engineering · Guide · 5 MIN
Tech-Stack Vanity: When the Newest Isn't the Best
A switch to the trendiest framework promises progress and often delivers only new risks. Why we deliberately keep our architectures boring — and why that makes your operation faster.
November 19, 2024
Cloud · Guide · 5 MIN
Alert Fatigue: Why Too Many Warnings Drown Out the One That Matters
Monitoring that alarms at every small deviation trains its recipients to ignore alarms. How to design warnings so the one that matters doesn't get lost.
September 17, 2024
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
Drowning in Text: Why the Perfect Spec Fails Against Reality
A hundred-and-fifty-page requirements spec, worked through cleanly — and the finished software fails on its first day on the shop floor. Why text is a lossy medium for operational knowledge, and how we close the gap between paper and practice.
July 16, 2024
Engineering · Guide · 5 MIN
Switching Off the Black Box: Why Automation Without Explanation Wins No Trust
An automated model runs production — and within a week those responsible switch it off again. Why people reject any black box, and how explanatory visibility instead of absolute automation builds trust.
May 14, 2024
Engineering · Guide · 5 MIN
Empty Required Fields: Why Complex Forms Can't Capture Expert Knowledge
To preserve the knowledge of experienced experts, a form with twenty-five required fields is introduced — and stays empty. Why data capture fails against the resistance of reality, and how to fit it to people instead of the other way around.
March 12, 2024
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
The Last Ten Percent Trap: Why Projects Stall Just Short of the Goal
Ninety percent done, on schedule — and then the rest drags on for months. Why the last ten percent of a software project are the most unpredictable and how we make them manageable.
January 16, 2024
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
The Rebuild Fallacy: Why a Software Rewrite Costs You Speed
The old software is slow, so you build it completely anew — that's how one of the most expensive misunderstandings in IT begins. Why the blank-slate project rarely delivers what it promises, and how we approach modernization instead.
August 22, 2023
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
Shadow IT as Diagnosis: What Secret Tools Reveal About Your Systems
A factory team secretly builds its own tools because the official ERP is too slow. Instead of shutting it down, you can read the most honest list of requirements there is from it.
February 15, 2022
Engineering · Guide · 5 MIN
Speed by Keyboard: Why Pretty Interfaces Slow Down Data Entry
An old terminal system gives way to a modern, click-happy web interface — and throughput collapses. Why keyboard parity is decisive for heavy data-entry users.
October 19, 2021
Engineering · Guide · 5 MIN
Securing Excel Legacy: The Spreadsheet Everything Hangs On
A grown Excel workbook with dozens of tabs and undocumented macros has become a single point of failure. How to preserve the logic and still remove the risk.
June 18, 2019
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
The Not-Invented-Here Tax: Overcoming Experienced Staff Resistance
A precision manufacturer invests a six-figure sum in a top-tier MES — and the operators bypass it with a notebook. Why that isn't stubbornness, and how you win the workforce over.
November 14, 2017
Strategy · Guide · 5 MIN
Visibility on the Shop Floor: Why Digital Boards Often Fail
A mid-sized manufacturer swaps its magnetic planning board for tablets — and loses the feel for the floor. Why that happens and how you preserve visibility.
March 12, 2015
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