Your spreadsheet is already a system. It's just not a safe one.
The question isn't whether to build a system, because you already run one. The question is whether it has the properties you'd demand if you could see it.
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Think differently
Opinions, held in public.
Lessons, written down.
Engineering, security, digital transformation, and the occasional argument with how this industry likes to work.
Security is an architecture decision, not a checkbox
Quality, compliance, even performance can all be dealt with late in a project. Security is different: by the time it's a checklist item, the important decisions are already made.
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The case against the six-month discovery phase
Long discovery phases feel rigorous. Mostly they're a way of postponing the moment the supplier has to be right about something.
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any of it?
Good. Those are the best first conversations.