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    Are Your Cloud Native Transformation Timelines Realistic?

    Under the heading ‘The Future of Cloud’, Gartner ran a symposium for CIOs and IT executives in 2022 including much discussion about strategies relating to Cloud and Cloud Native trends. At least two o...

    9 min read

    Breaking Down the AI Firewall in Recruitment

    Standing in front of a club is a big intimidating bouncer, ominous, unwavering and imposing. This bouncer is the only thing keeping you from getting in that door. Looking at the building and the door ...

    WTFinar (with transcript): WTF is Delivery Management?

    In this session, Jonny Williams, author of "Delivery Management: Enabling Teams to Deliver Value", dives into the discipline of Delivery Management and its importance in enabling teams to achieve valu...

    19 min read

    A Conway’s Law Variant: How Company Culture Impacts Code Quality

    In Part 1, we discussed what can be done at the individual and team level to commit to a certain level of quality and to ensure that quality practices become part of the daily routine and are not seen...

    17 min read

    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 4: Building the House

    Through parts 1, 2 and 3 we have established an understanding of the foundational thinking that supports the idea of CEV as an effective way of thinking about strategic planning in business.

    9 min read

    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 3: The Business as an Entity

    In Part 2 with dived into Eliezer Yudkowski’s theory of Coherent Extrapolated Volition and examined the component parts of the idea that, “our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew mor...

    7 min read

    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 2: Coherent Extrapolated Volition

    In Part 1 we reviewed two key foundational theories of AI safety and how they relate to strategic planning in business. Instrumental convergence tells us that there will be potentially unforeseen and ...

    Podcast: Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors on Code Rewrites, Acquisitions, Observability, and Team Performance

    Charles Humble talks to Honeycomb CTO and co-founder Charity Majors. They talk about her experience at Parse, re-writing Parse in Go, and her lessons from Parse’s acquisition and shut-down by Facebook...

    9 min read

    The Five As of Consciousness (And Workshop Planning)

    The science and art of workshop design, in my admittedly biassed opinion, is something that is rarely given enough attention and thought. More often than not, a room is booked for a day, Post-its are ...