Sector brief — updated 8 Aug 2026

How teams actually decide, when the plan runs out

Notes on planning, careers and decision-making for people running real teams — the part of the job that no roadmap covers.

What's genuinely in production

What's still pilot theatre

Photograph — planning wall or standup

Vendors that keep appearing

Regulation coming

Every deployment in Ways of working

A murmuration of birds over open hills, with a single winding path narrowing to the horizon and one walker on it.

News, with a verdict / Ways of workingWhat if the five-year plan is the thing holding you back?The strongest operators we interview rarely followed a plan. They followed a short list of rules about what they would and would not do — and let the path assemble itself.8 Aug 2026 · Verdict