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Article — 9 December 2025 — 1,844 words

Resisting Conway’s law through more thoughtful mapping

Business — Digital — Information architecture — User experience

A large number of boxes arranged into a pyramid. The box on the top row is larger than all the others.

Organisational structures and information architectures are both often visualised in artefacts described as “maps”. These constrained visualisations may embed siloed ways of working, and create problems for our users.

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Article — 2 October 2025 — 555 words

The forgotten purpose of agile — Empowered teams responding to change

Business — Technology — User research

An arrow with a long line behind it switching direction around two crosses

The ideas behind agile tend to be squashed down to two words: “move fast”. But the Agile Manifesto says nothing about moving fast.

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