Structure-Driven Engineering Organization Theory #6 — Designing Interventions (1-on-1 / Pair Programming)

Six months of weekly "how are things going?" 1-on-1s won't move the organization one millimeter — the intervention is trapped at the behavior layer. The moment the conversation opens that way, it doesn't touch accumulation by a single gram. Cut with structure, not with emotion. That's the only intervention that moves organizations. Scope of this chapter : design layer (decomposing interventions into three targets — behavior, output, structure) + practice layer (redesigning 1-on-1s, pair programm