# organizational change (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover organizational change. Page: Feed: --- ## [Kākāriki](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/825605586543607808) _2026-08-22 · DesignAday_ Kākāriki ## [Sticking My Nose In](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/825515518448517120) _2026-08-21 · DesignAday_ Once I documented the role of my Workflow Management agent , I could automate more of its job. Every time one of my product agents finishes a milestone, it conducts a retrospective. Until now, I’ve been the one connecting the dots. I would copy the retrospective, bring it over to the Workflow Management agent, ask it to analyze the findings, and then decide with Claude whether any changes should… ## [The Manager Wasn’t in the Manual](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/825442769438982144) _2026-08-20 · DesignAday_ I realized that there was a hole in my product development workflow, and it was making me nervous. Everything about how the product agents work is documented. Their roles, the development loop, design checks, reviews, retrospectives, model selection, milestone close, and all of the other process details live in Markdown files that the agents can read and follow… except for the Workflow Management… ## [How Good Leaders Own Outcomes (And Bad Ones Point Fingers)](https://jmlalonde.com/how-good-leaders-own-outcomes-and-bad-ones-point-fingers/) _2026-08-20 · Joseph Lalonde · Joseph Lalonde_ Think about this… What happens when a major deadline is missed? Or maybe a project’s deliverables fail right in front of the key stakeholders. These things hurt. They can make you react. What is your instinctive reaction? You might have the urge to: Defend yourself Deflect the blame Explain who dropped the ball It’s human \[…\] ## [Unemployment FOMO](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/825351625144254464) _2026-08-19 · DesignAday_ I’ve been unemployed for seven months now, and while I’m enjoying my product work, I must admit to a bit of FOMO. I’m listening to podcasts and reading articles featuring design leaders who are blazing trails through the wildlands of AI. I feel like I should be in there with them. That’s what I was just starting to do when my team was laid off. I’m learning about teams that are stepping away from… ## [3 Days, 9 Songs](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/825253111908188160) _2026-08-18 · DesignAday_ Last Thursday, a few of my bandmates and I headed into the sticks for a songwriting retreat. We have a backlog of incomplete songs that we just haven’t been finding the time to finish, so we decided to set aside a few days that we could dedicate entirely to music. My family’s log cabin in the middle of West Virginia was the perfect place. We have internet now, so we weren’t completely cut off from… ## [Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The End Of Oak Street](https://jmlalonde.com/quotes-and-leadership-lessons-from-the-end-of-oak-street/) _2026-08-17 · Joseph Lalonde · Joseph Lalonde_ When I saw the trailer for The End Of Oak Street, something stood out to me. J.J. Abrams directed the movie. He was the producer of Lost, Super 8, and other films and TV series. More importantly, he produced Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and The Cloverfield Paradox. Something about this film’s trailer reminded me of \[…\] ## [Ōkupe Lagoon](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/824927640152653824) _2026-08-14 · DesignAday_ Ōkupe Lagoon ## [The customers, the visitors, the patients, the readers, the guests, whatever you call them—their…](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/824836633628213248) _2026-08-13 · DesignAday_ The customers, the visitors, the patients, the readers, the guests, whatever you call them—their experience is what determines the company’s success or failure. So focus first on the overall experience. It’s strategic, not tactical. It’s about the people, not the tool. Focusing on the larger picture first will set a better context in which to work—later—on usability tactics. Mark Hurst ## [4 Steps To Set Expectations In 30 Minutes](https://jmlalonde.com/4-steps-to-set-expectations-in-30-minutes/) _2026-08-13 · Joseph Lalonde · Joseph Lalonde_ Have you ever assigned a project to a team member only to have the end results be something completely different from what you expected? You may have had a clear vision of what success looked like. Except what you got wasn t what you wanted. The immediate thought is to blame the employee. They were lazy. \[ \] ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XhcKXNxAbiRy) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Let’s Talk About Agents](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-08-12-lets-talk-about-agents/) _2026-08-12 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ "Agent" gets used as an autonomy descriptor, a product feature name, and a platform primitive, often in the same conversation. A field guide to the three meanings, using GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry as the running example. ## [Ultimate Playlist: Road Trip, 16–20](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/824696834420359168) _2026-08-11 · DesignAday_ She Drives Like Crazy by “Weird Al” Yankovic Weird Al takes the metaphor out of Fine Young Cannibals’ “She Drives Me Crazy” and replaces it with a terrifyingly literal interpretation. Yankovic later admitted that he had trouble imitating Roland Gift’s unusual vocal style, so he abandoned accuracy and went for a cartoon voice somewhere between Dudley Do-Right and Peter Puma instead. The result is… ## [Darts in the Dark](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/824620284538748928) _2026-08-11 · DesignAday_ One of my product agents recently reported that it had used my design principles but couldn’t invoke the design skills I installed through Impeccable. The skills weren’t registered as available commands, so the agent followed a fallback rule and read their instruction files directly. Now, wait just one minute. Those skills have been installed since the beginning of these projects and are supposed… ## [Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Judge Dredd 1995](https://jmlalonde.com/quotes-and-leadership-lessons-from-judge-dredd-1995/) _2026-08-10 · Joseph Lalonde · Joseph Lalonde_ Judge Dredd tells the story of Judge Joseph Dredd (Sylvester Stallone). He s a street judge in Mega City One, trying to protect the populace. However, there s a conspiracy brewing. He s framed for murder by his clone brother, Rico (Armand Assante), and Judge Griffin (Jürgen Prochnow). Now, he s on the lamb from the law he s sworn \[ \] ## [North Island Robin](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/824349521752571904) _2026-08-08 · DesignAday_ North Island Robin ## [Right is Wrong and Fast is Slow](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/824262950567198720) _2026-08-07 · DesignAday_ One of my recent development loops ended with all of the automated tests passing. That’s actually fairly common, as I have my agentic workflow pretty well sorted. But when I opened the product in a browser, I found that part of the interface was wrong. Actually, that happens frequently as well. Unit tests can’t catch every visual or interaction problem. That’s exactly why my workflow requires… ## [A Simple Agenda For Your One On One Meetings](https://jmlalonde.com/a-simple-agenda-for-your-one-on-one-meetings/) _2026-08-06 · Joseph Lalonde · Joseph Lalonde_ Working with your employees using one-on-one meetings can be extremely beneficial. Your employees get face time with their manager. You get face time with your employees and hear their concerns. But what happens if you want to hold one-on-one meetings but you have no idea what to do? You have no idea what the agenda \[ \] ## [The role of the designer is that of a good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests.](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/824141728459161600) _2026-08-05 · DesignAday_ The role of the designer is that of a good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests. Charles Eames ## [Seeded, Not Settled](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/824067753311944704) _2026-08-05 · DesignAday_ One of the more interesting patterns that emerged during my latest milestone involved how my agents make decisions. When a task is created, it often includes a recommendation about which design system components are likely to be needed. The workflow “seeds” an implementation path to give the coding agent a head start, but it’s only a hypothesis. During my last milestone, those seeded… ## [Breaking What Was Broken](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/823987543669424128) _2026-08-04 · DesignAday_ After planning a task, and before implementation, my workflow recommends an AI model based on the task’s complexity. The agent is supposed to compare the recommended model with the one currently active and pause if they don’t match. One of my agents was repeatedly getting that comparison wrong. It would finish implementation and report that it used Sonnet when it should have used Opus, even though… ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AuodQeflwcwE) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [Generic Agents Are a Tax. Custom Agents Are an Investment.](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-08-03-generic-vs-custom-agents/) _2026-08-03 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ A live workshop experiment comparing a generic Copilot chat to a custom Backlog Generator agent on the same requirements-writing task, and why the gap is an argument for investing engineering rigor in designing your AI assets. ## [Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Spider-Man: Brand New Day](https://jmlalonde.com/quotes-and-leadership-lessons-from-spider-man-brand-new-day/) _2026-08-03 · Joseph Lalonde · Joseph Lalonde_ Sometimes, you have to start from the end. That s where I want to start with Spider-Man: Brand New Day. As the film nears its dramatic conclusion and the credits begin to roll, an almost sold-out theater broke out in cheers and applause. Mind you, there were no live actors there. The applause was for the \[ \] ## [Bellbird](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/823673206137389056) _2026-07-31 · DesignAday_ Bellbird ## [Complete. Again.](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/823615373378273280) _2026-07-31 · DesignAday_ I completed Milestone 26… for the fourth time. The milestone originally contained four tasks. When my workflow agent completes the last task in a milestone, it automatically conducts a review to ensure that all requirements have been met and all tasks have been completed. Of course, while the agents were implementing the work, I was reviewing the output and taking notes on things that needed to be… ## [5 Leadership Books To Read In August 2026](https://jmlalonde.com/5-leadership-books-to-read-in-august-2026/) _2026-07-30 · Joseph Lalonde · Joseph Lalonde_ I m always a huge proponent of learning from others. One of the easiest ways to do that is to read great leadership books. There s a whole slew of them out there. Finding the best can be a challenge. It s one of the reasons I share lists of books with you almost every month. I want \[ \] ## [Institutional Memory](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/823534950174326784) _2026-07-30 · DesignAday_ One of the rituals of Agile development is the retrospective, or retro for short. At the end of a sprint—typically two weeks—the team takes time to discuss what went well and what could improve. There are many different methods of facilitating a retro, all intended to get team members thinking about different parts of the process and recording their observations. From my experience, most teams… ## [Good News is News](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/823453030198509568) _2026-07-29 · DesignAday_ I closed another milestone on the skill mapping app I’ve been building, which means one of my agents ran the full milestone retrospective. It checked the requirements, mapped the completed tasks back to the specification, reviewed the evidence, looked for drift, identified process problems, and recommended any changes that should carry forward into future work. Most of the report was confirmation… ## [A Model Selection Fable](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/823348699176599552) _2026-07-28 · DesignAday_ One of my agents recently recommended using Claude’s Fable, my most expensive model, for nine of its last sixteen development loops. At first, I assumed it was doing some heavy lifting. After all, the gamebook companion is a relatively complicated application. It has combat rules, inventory, save states, dialogs, action menus, and a lot of conditional interaction logic. Maybe the agent really did… ## [The Nervous Nerd](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-07-27-the-nervous-nerd/) _2026-07-27 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ Why the fear and the excitement about AI aren't two different camps of people. They're the same person, on the same night, and both feelings are trying to tell you something useful. ## [Tūī](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/822401227416567808) _2026-07-17 · DesignAday_ Tūī ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aZ9iPD3BgGyX) _2026-07-17 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Token Withdrawal](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/822358317904052224) _2026-07-17 · DesignAday_ I was on vacation for a week, and when I got home, I felt like I was behind. Nothing had actually fallen behind. My agents had simply been sitting idle for nine days. No tasks had accumulated. No coworkers were waiting for me. No deadlines had slipped. Still, I was acutely aware that I had paid for a week’s worth of tokens that I hadn’t used. I also knew I had another family trip coming up in a… ## […usability is about people and how they understand and use things, not about technology.](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/822259474279612416) _2026-07-16 · DesignAday_ …usability is about people and how they understand and use things, not about technology. Steve Krug ## [I Used to Love Writing Code. Now I Love Shipping It.](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-07-15-love-to-ship/) _2026-07-15 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ A confession about half-finished side projects, why loving to code was never enough, and how AI tools finally turned that love into a habit of shipping. ## [DivAIde and Conquer](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/822176477717168128) _2026-07-15 · DesignAday_ Maybe it’s just my preference to compartmentalize things and keep them organized, but one of the most effective decisions I’ve made in my agentic product development workflow was to separate workflow management from product implementation. Each of my product agents stays focused on its own application. It plans and implements tasks, reviews the work, updates project documentation, and runs a… ## [Tell It Like It Is, ChatGPT](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/822085795134455808) _2026-07-14 · DesignAday_ I’ve been using Codex to automate some of my job hunting tasks. I built out a workflow that ingests job descriptions, evaluates them against a bunch of criteria and then ranks them in a priority order. It keeps track of what I’ve applied to when, rejections, and so forth. Last week, I had just entered some new positions and noticed that an update was available. So, I hit the Update button. The app… ## [Kōkako](https://designaday.tumblr.com/post/821819578577502208) _2026-07-11 · DesignAday_ Kōkako ## [We Don’t Have All the Answers — And That’s the Point](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-07-01-ai-consulting-model/) _2026-07-01 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ The old consulting model of knowing more than your client doesn't survive contact with AI. Here's what's actually happening, and what the new model looks like. ## [Wishful Thinking?](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-06-17-wishful-thinking/) _2026-06-17 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ Two years into working with AI tools every day, here's my honest assessment of what's changed, what hasn't, and why I'm cautiously optimistic about the future of software engineering as a profession. ## [The Instructions Are the Process](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-06-10-the-instructions-are-the-process/) _2026-06-10 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ The previous post closed with a claim: get the artifact chain right at the team level and you have something replicable. That’s what program-scale AI adoption actually looks like. ## [The Artifact is the Architecture](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-06-03-ai-dev-flow/) _2026-06-03 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ Getting AI to produce consistent outcomes across a large program is hard. Most teams are discovering this the wrong way: each developer finding their own workflow, context evaporating between sessions, features drifting from intent, and no two teams using AI the same way. ## [Your Team Isn’t Using AI. Your Developers Are.](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-05-26-operationalizing-ai-assisted-development/) _2026-05-26 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ In my last post, I wrote about how senior developers are getting disproportionate productivity gains from AI-assisted development. Multiple 2026 studies confirm the pattern: the more experienced a developer is, the greater the productivity impact. A Fastly survey put a specific number on it — senior engineers generating AI-assisted code at 2.5 times the rate of junior developers. ## [Visiting Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve](https://woodlanddecay.com/2026/05/15/tout-quarry-sculpture-park/) _2026-05-15 · Mark · woodlanddecay.com_ A visit to the thought-provoking Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve on Sunday 22nd March 2026, reflections and photographs. ## [I Talk Too Much](http://www.shawnewallace.com/2026-04-09-talk-too-much/) _2026-04-09 · Shawn Wallace · Shawn Wallace_ A Principal Architect and church elder reflects on listening, restraint, and the pressure to always have answers. ## [The Possibilities of Woody Rosemary : Four Sculptures](https://woodlanddecay.com/2026/02/27/woody-rosemary/) _2026-02-27 · Mark · woodlanddecay.com_ Woody rosemary is typically regarded as problematic, but there is magic and beauty in these contorted stems. The following four Mary Trees have been crafted in early 2026 out of woody rosemary plants. ## [Understanding Sir Joseph William Bazalgette’s Battle with the Projectors](https://woodlanddecay.com/2025/11/19/sir-joseph-william-bazalgette/) _2025-11-19 · Mark · woodlanddecay.com_ Projectors competed with Sir Joseph William Bazalgette to deliver the London sanitation projects he successfully delivered. Acknowledging the unsuccessful projectors adds to understanding Bazalgette's contribution. ## [Whatever happened to the best Brighton pubs of the 1990s?](https://woodlanddecay.com/2025/10/23/whatever-happened-to-the-best-brighton-pubs-of-the-1990s/) _2025-10-23 · Mark · woodlanddecay.com_ In the early 1990s, I acquired an art print featuring the 44 best Brighton pubs (bars). The majority are still serving, whilst some have been reimagined with new names. Only 7 of these pubs completely disappeared. This post features an urban ramble in search of each lost pub location. ## [Crime Novel Locations and Psychogeography](https://woodlanddecay.com/2025/08/28/crime-novel-locations/) _2025-08-28 · Mark · woodlanddecay.com_ Three murder mystery books set in Saltdean and Newhaven. Does knowing the place in which the novelist locates the murder help or hinder reading? ## [The Haunted Houses of Oswestry](https://woodlanddecay.com/2025/05/12/the-haunted-houses-of-oswestry/) _2025-05-12 · Mark · woodlanddecay.com_ A long, long time ago, there were three old farmhouses down Cabin Lane on the outskirts of Oswestry. As children, we believed that they were haunted. Today, only ghostly memories remain. ## [Pay no Poll Tax, London, March 31st, 1990](https://woodlanddecay.com/2025/03/06/pay-no-poll-tax-london-march-31st-1990/) _2025-03-06 · Mark · woodlanddecay.com_ I attended the national demonstration in London on the eve of the England and Wales implementation of the Poll Tax. I share the journal entry written on the evening of March 31st 1990, and some of the photographs from the demonstration. ## [Psychogeography: What a long, strange trip it has been](https://woodlanddecay.com/2025/03/06/psychogeography-what-a-long-strange-trip-it-has-been/) _2025-03-06 · Mark · woodlanddecay.com_ Every life is a strange trip through landscapes, emotions and imaginations. Increasingly, I warm to the unfashionable concept of psychogeography.