Notes

Writing on operations, Lean and the AI layer.

Short pieces on what actually works in critical-environment operations — service management that survives contact with a live site, Lean applied without the theatre, and where AI genuinely removes work versus where it just moves it.

Why RCAs go stale — and the control that fixes itDraft

Staleness is not a discipline problem, it is a design problem. What a problem management KPI framework has to measure if you want records that close.

Platform migrations: the stabilisation period nobody budgets forDraft

Lessons from taking a region through a ServiceNow transition. The cutover is the easy part; the ninety days after it decide whether the new model holds.

The most automatable work in a data center is not in the data hallDraft

Triage summaries, RCA drafting, knowledge maintenance, change risk assessment. Where AI earns its place in operations — and the three places it must never sit.

What a poultry processing plant taught me about hyperscaleDraft

Throughput is throughput. The constraint theory that works on a processing line works on a rack deployment pipeline, and it is more visible when you can see it move.

New pieces land here first. For anything in the meantime, the conversation usually starts on LinkedIn.

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Happy to compare notes on operations design, service management or AI-enabled workflow.