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It has never been about code

April 3, 2026
Chocolate plates

In search of resilience

March 13, 2026
Sunset over the sea

You are not left behind

February 20, 2026
Graffiti at a house wall (seen in Porto, Portugal)

Forget technical debt

January 30, 2026
View across some ruins integrated in a park (seen in Budapest, Hungary)

We default to addition

January 9, 2026
Pile of rocks looming behind a concrete wall
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Projects considered harmful - Part 1

The problem with broken feedback loops

June 28, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

10 minute read

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What is a project?

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Responsible IT - Part 2

Responding from first principles

June 7, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

16 minute read

Golden Gate Bridge

In the previous post, we discussed the biggest challenges, IT organizations face these days. We have seen four big challenges, each with its own peculiarities:

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Responsible IT - Part 1

Drivers for rethinking IT

May 17, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

12 minute read

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Lately, I attended an IT decision maker conference. A few hundred CIOs and other IT decision makers under a single roof. When looking at the conference schedule, you found the usual suspects:

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The need-vs-want dilemma

An explanation model for bad decision making

April 26, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

12 minute read

Female donkey with a colt on a meadow

In the The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, author Bill Watterson commented on some selected comic strips. Especially one comment made a lasting impression on me:

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Software - It's not what you think it is - Part 7

Making sense of it all for humans

April 5, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

11 minute read

Ducks at the seashore

In the previous post, we summed up the misconceptions we discussed in this series and what they mean for the current discussion if AI solutions will replace software developers.

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Uwe Friedrichsen

Uwe Friedrichsen

Web site and blog. Writing about IT most of the time.

Recent Posts

It has never been about code

April 3, 2026
Chocolate plates

In search of resilience

March 13, 2026
Sunset over the sea

You are not left behind

February 20, 2026
Graffiti at a house wall (seen in Porto, Portugal)

Forget technical debt

January 30, 2026
View across some ruins integrated in a park (seen in Budapest, Hungary)

We default to addition

January 9, 2026
Pile of rocks looming behind a concrete wall
View more posts

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