Working guides

Useful structure for the next hard decision.

These guides are written for teams that need a shared way to frame the work, create evidence, and move without pretending the path is simple.

Seven field guides

Make the work visible before you make it bigger.

Each guide has a clear sequence, questions to ask, and the tangible artifacts that help keep a cross-functional effort aligned.

Cloud · 30 minute read

The cloud modernization field guide.

Move from estate ambiguity to a modernization sequence with an evidence-led workload portfolio, practical landing-zone choices, and value-based waves.

  • Portfolio
  • Guardrails
  • Waves
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Database reliability · 28 minute read

The database reliability playbook.

Define the service experience you are protecting, find weak recovery assumptions, and tune performance around real workload behavior.

  • SLOs
  • Recovery
  • Performance
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Automation · 25 minute read

The practical automation discovery kit.

Find meaningful workflow opportunities, design for the exception path, and make sure a new automation earns trust before it scales.

  • Discovery
  • Exceptions
  • Adoption
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AI · 27 minute read

The AI assistant design guide.

Set a useful scope, protect sensitive context, create review points, and evaluate whether an assistant is making work materially better.

  • Scope
  • Guardrails
  • Evaluation
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Designed to be used together.

Good technology work is rarely a linear handoff. Bring the people closest to the process, the data, the risk, and the customer into the same room. Use a guide to make their assumptions comparable—then decide what deserves a small, testable next move.