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Mostly about strategy execution, portfolio governance and performance management, written by the people who had to decide how the schema works.

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Strategy

Why weighted cascades beat goal alignment diagrams

An alignment diagram tells you which goals are related. A weighted cascade tells you what happens to the parent number when a child slips. Only one of those is useful in October.

4 August 20267 min

Delivery

The frozen baseline is the whole point

Teams that re-baseline every time a date moves have no variance, only a plan that is permanently on track. Here is how to freeze once and still handle legitimate change.

22 July 20269 min

Performance

Calibration is a distribution problem, not a fairness speech

Managers do not rate inconsistently because they are unfair. They rate inconsistently because nobody showed them the distribution before they submitted.

9 July 20266 min

Public sector

What performance contracting gets right that OKRs do not

Public-sector performance contracts have carried weights, a fiscal year and a countersignature for decades. Private-sector goal setting is only now catching up.

28 June 202611 min

Wellness

Why we report burnout risk for cohorts and never for people

The technically easier product names the individual. We think that product should not exist, and the constraint turned out to make the signal better anyway.

14 June 20268 min

Engineering

Modelling the golden thread in Postgres

How objectives, portfolios, projects and agreements reference each other, and why we chose nullable foreign keys over a join table for the strategic linkage.

2 June 202614 min

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