What Has COP26 Ever Done For Us?

    We all learned during the first two weeks of November that coming to an agreement on climate issues is far from easy - everyone has their own opinion on the right and wrong way to go about things.

    Bell SmartCore - Edge Case Study

    Building a Cloud Native edge platform

    Wardley Mapping and Agile at 20: It’s Not One-Size-Fits-All

    Agile turned 20 this year. Yet how many organisations are actually ‘agile’? What is agile, anyway, and does agility even make sense for all stages and ages of business? Now that IT has gone from being...

    11 min read

    The Future of Work? It’s Going to Be Experimental, If We’re Lucky

    What’s your new normal like? After all, a year and a half of Covid has fundamentally changed the world of work, with technology enabling a shift to remote or hybrid working: or so we’re told. This is ...

    A Psychologist’s Guide to Reconstructing Work for a Virtual Future World

    In a large-scale study of almost 16,000 global leaders conducted by DDI in February 2021, only 1 in 5 rated themselves as effective in leading virtual teams, with the report stating “23% of leaders sa...

    5 min read

    WTF is Cloud Native? Recommended Reading List

    WTF is Cloud Native? was born out of a desire to both share what we’ve learned with the broader Cloud Native community, and provide a platform for others in the community to do the same thing. As we c...

    11 min read

    Is Agility Related to Commitment?

    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...

    #HugOps and Psychological Safety - Think Root Causes Not Root People

    Benjamin Franklin once said “The Only Two Certainties In Life Are Death And Taxes”. But if he was an engineer he’d probably add another to that list, outages. Engineers at Facebook would doubtless agr...

    12 min read

    How to Make Hybrid Meetings Not Suck

    Hybrid meetings are back - and people are enjoying them and finding them useful. That’s the shock finding of new research by Dr Joseph Allen, meeting scientist at the University of Utah.