First Sip Today’s coffee is simple. Black. No cream. No sugar. Nothing added. Nothing hidden. You know exactly what you’re getting. That’s the standard engineering leadership should aim for. No masking weakness with polish. No decorative velocity. No dramatic overcorrection. Just clarity. Just discipline. Just reliability. Because beneath sprint boards, modernization plans, AI initiatives, and release dashboards, engineering exists for a quieter purpose: Engineering is a risk management function . Everything else is output. Engineering as Enterprise Insurance Engineering is often described as a growth engine. That is incomplete. It is also enterprise insurance . Every production system carries embedded financial exposure: Revenue flow dependencies Compliance obligations Customer trust Brand credibility Contractual service expectations When systems fail, the failure is not technical. It is financial. It is reputational. It is str...