Series
Building this site through its own governance
Each episode reports one stage of real delivery: what the controls caught, what they missed, and what it cost. Nothing here is a worked example.
- The Authority GateThe authority model this estate runs on, the five things that turned out to be broken when I tested it by building this site, and the one I described wrongly.
- The brief that failed its own CIHow this site's idea became a product brief, why the first attempt failed CI with nothing wrong in the brief, and the fix that moved the problem instead of removing it.
- The repository came before the briefThis site was in production before its product brief existed, and its research and requirement stages never ran. What the skip cost, and what it did not.
- Two decisions the build forcedWith no requirement stage, this site's first decisions came from the build. Two estate decisions in three days, what each one settled, and what each one left open on purpose.
- The stages that ran lateSeven weeks after this site went live, its research and requirement stages ran. The research found a limit that would soon break the published record. The record was already broken.