I'm Pete Morrish.
Aggressively systems-brained.
Unapologetically human-focussed.
Twenty-five years designing games, pipelines, products and whole studios taught me to look at how the work is set up. Who gets to make a decision? Where does bad news go? Who picks up the slack when the plan turns out to be wrong?
I built House Rules to make sense of those patterns. Home Truths is the first way in: a confidential questionnaire about what actually happens at work.
Stuff like this doesn't have to be normal.
The work keeps landing. But the cost of getting it over the line stays out of sight.
Jo cancels dinner twice. Sam does the final checks after putting the kids to bed. And the build goes out on time.
Afterwards, the report says delivered as planned. So next time, that's the plan.
Work runs beautifully while the right people are around. Then one of them takes a fortnight off.
Priya's on holiday. The build breaks. Nobody else knows how to get it going again, so she fixes it from the campsite.
When she gets back, she offers to show someone else how to fix it. But they need her on the build.
The meetings are quiet. You only hear about the trouble once it's already blown up.
Dan says the migration needs another day. He's told they'll come back to it. They don't. The team spends Sunday getting it over the line.
At the next planning meeting, Dan sees the same problem. This time he lets it go. 'No objections, then?' says the person running the meeting.
The board's green. But the work on the ground tells a different story.
Maya marks the new tool as live. It is. Over in Support, Ben's still doing half the jobs in the old one because he can't finish them in the new one.
At the rollout review, every milestone's green. So the rollout team moves on. Ben keeps both tabs open.
See what's worth a closer look.
Home Truths is a privacy-first multiple-choice questionnaire I help you run with your staff. It looks for patterns in what people across the organisation have seen happen at work.
You get a report that shows what's worth investigating, what might be driving it and what's still unclear.
Want to see how I investigate causes and help change the work?