BOOK
BEFORE THE ARCHITECTURE
Why systems fail before anyone notices
Coming out in Spring 2026.
What breaks before systems break
Most organisations do not fail where they think they do.
They do not fail because of tools, or processes, or lack of effort.
They fail earlier.
By the time an organisation is “doing architecture,” something essential has already loosened. The words people use no longer point to the same things. Decisions no longer rest on shared reference. Structure begins to describe instead of constrain.
What follows is motion without direction.
Before the Architecture is about that earlier moment — the one that rarely gets named, but shapes everything that comes after.
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