For more than 25 years I've been learning how systems behave, from machines to teams to teams working with AI.
I'm Ahmed Avais, an engineering leader who spent a decade coaching engineering and product leaders, sometimes across more than 200 teams at once. I help engineering leaders build healthy teams, make change stick and lead well in complex systems, including the shift to AI happening now. More about me.
- machinesnetworks, infrastructure
- teamsXP, coaching, HSD
- teams + AIspecs, harness, safety net
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Retire, sustain or grow
A federal agency had to decide the future of more than 40 financial-education products. My team went past the brief, pairing AI similarity scoring across 70 sites with real usage data, so every recommendation came with evidence.
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Too certain to grow
In 2018 my work was close to certainty and close to agreement, and I was stagnating. The Landscape Diagram helped me see why, and it guided a leap to China with my family that turned out to be one of the best decisions I've made.
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