Why Most Software Projects Don’t Fail: They Just Drift
21 January 2026
After years of working within London’s leading creative design agencies, I’ve witnessed countless software projects that never quite reach their destination. The curious thing? Most don’t actually fail in the traditional sense. There’s no catastrophic crash, no project cancellation, no official postmortem. Instead, they drift: endlessly circling their intended goals, consuming resources, burning through budgets, […]
When Good Developers Deliver Bad Systems
17 January 2026
There’s a paradox that haunts software development: the most talented developers can sometimes create the biggest problems. Not because they lack skill—quite the opposite. It’s precisely their competence that allows them to build systems so sophisticated, so architecturally pure, so technically impressive that they become liabilities.I’ve seen this pattern repeatedly across agencies and product teams. […]