Working in Cloud Native consulting, I’m often asked about who should do various bits of ‘the platform work’.
Having the privilege of working in software in the 2020s, I hear variations on the following ideas expressed frequently:
In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what needs to be in place to make change come about. Have you ever found...
I spent 20 years slaving away at companies doing development, maintenance, troubleshooting, architecture, management, and whatever else needed doing. For all those years I was a permanent hire, workin...
As I consult with clients to help change the way they work, I struggle to explain that their attack on problems may not be appropriate to the situation I was hired to help with. They might be a start-...
Previously, I wrote about how a software company’s cultural challenges can be traced back to how money flows through it, using the example of an ‘accidental product’ B2B type of business that tries to...
tl;dr – ‘Money Flows Rule Everything Around Me’
You’re a few years into your tenure as CEO of Vandelay Industries, a behemoth in the transpondsting space that’s existed for many decades.
How many times have you sat there trying to work through a technical problem, and thought:
