A load bearing detail is the small detail which carries a lot of the weight of an idea, practice or technique. An example is that velocity should never be used to govern across teams. With this detail in place velocity allows for meaningful conversations and a path to more mature estimation techniques. Without it , you going to have the heartbreak of standardized points and rampant point inflation (and so many conversations about “what is a point ?”). So some details matter and lots don’t, this blog will occasionally talk about the details that are load bearing.

My name is Caoilte Dunne, I am Irish and Australian, I live in Sydney. I work as a consultant and change agent. I am fascinated by the interconnecting systems that give rise to our context. These can be systems of work, org structures, the nested dolls of relationship systems and more. My main goal to help people realize the potentials for improvement (within them, how they work and how they lead). When I am feeling pompous I think of myself as as a systemic optimizer with a humanistic bent.

This blog is about what is currently exercising my brain. I read a fair amount of books and so it is often about how something that caught my attention in one book caused other connections and ideas to bubble up.