The latest updates, articles, and thoughts on strategy and systems.https://www.andycarlberg.com/en-ushttps://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/analog-workflow-digital-persona/https://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/analog-workflow-digital-persona/Why a technologist traded digital apps for a physical GTD system. Exploring the engineering behind a low-latency, analog productivity workflow.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:30:00 GMThttps://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/scrum-board-layout-and-team-sovereignty/https://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/scrum-board-layout-and-team-sovereignty/Stop using your Sprint Board for surveillance. Learn how shifting from developer swimlanes to story-centric lanes reclaims team sovereignty and transforms your stand-ups.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:00:00 GMThttps://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/story-points-categorical-data/https://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/story-points-categorical-data/Stop treating Story Points like fixed units of time. Learn how points function as categorical data and how plotting them against velocity reveals your team's size-specific Cone of Uncertainty for realistic estimation.Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:00:00 GMThttps://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-retrospective/https://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-retrospective/The ultimate resilience strategy? Knowing when to stop. This AoC retrospective explores TDD as governance, strategic prioritization, and true architectural discipline.Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:53:00 GMThttps://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-day4/https://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-day4/Day 4 required solving an iterative spatial problem. I used spatial indexing for efficient neighbor counting and a BFS simulation to model the cascading removal of paper rolls.Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:53:00 GMThttps://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-day3/https://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-day3/The Day 3 challenge demanded maximizing a 12-digit sequence, testing our system's architectural resilience. See the journey from flawed assumptions to implementing the optimized stack, ensuring robustness against extreme scale via BigInt.Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:53:00 GMThttps://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-day2/https://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-day2/A Principal Architect's breakdown of AoC Day 2. See how TDD and architectural discipline hold up under new requirements, and the limits of AI in generating governed tests.Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:53:00 GMThttps://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-day1/https://www.andycarlberg.com/insights/architecture-resilience-aoc-2025-day1/Architects don't just solve problems; we prevent them. See why applying enterprise-grade TDD and strategic overkill to Advent of Code is the only way to build resilience. Day 1.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:00:00 GMT