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Tom Hollis

Founder

Tom started Dockyard after too many projects that shipped to staging and stopped. He writes about scoping, estimates and handover.

What a good scope document contains

Before any code, we write down the problem, the constraints, and what "shipped" means. Here is the template we actually use.11 March 20261 min readTom Hollis Engineering

Reconciliation without a nightly batch

How we turned a six-hour month-end close into a query, using an append-only ledger and idempotent replays.3 February 20261 min readMaya Okonkwo, Tom Hollis Practice

Shipping to production is the job

Staging is a rehearsal. Until software is in production serving real users, none of the interesting problems have happened yet.14 January 20261 min readTom Hollis

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