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Moving to the Cloud

February 6, 2023 12 minute read

cloud bill’s a brewin’ It may seem odd in 2023 to be talking about moving infrastructure to the cloud, but I am constantly surprised at how many businesses that could be cloud-based aren’t. AWS has been around for 17 years, Google Cloud for 15 years, Azure for 13 years and alternative cloud offerings for 10 years. Actually, I say I’m surprised, but perhaps intrigued is a better word. Like so much in tech, these things do have a sort o...

Risk-Free Development

January 31, 2023 9 minute read

Risk is a funny thing. We let it influence so much of what we do and yet we barely understand what it is. For example, we might choose not to build a particular product, or add a new feature, because “it’s too high risk” (and yet we laud start-ups who did it anyway). We hold very long meetings to create plans and tracking systems and RAID logs to identify and notify risks and then we create mitigation acti...

The Creator Myth

January 30, 2023 14 minute read

Probably the most important change to tech delivery, in the last five years or so, has been the rise of Product Management. As a discipline Product Management has been around since way before we had software products and services that needed managing, but I am talking here about the relatively recent named team on the org chart, often led by a Chief Prod...

Death By Customer

October 13, 2018 9 minute read

On paper, at least, the world of software development has come a long way in the last 15 years. It’s gotten so that I can’t actually remember the sleepless nights worrying about quality of output, release deadlines or scope creep. Now that everything is a series of continuously flowing tiny adjustments, the only issues big enough to fret about are the commute to th...

Scaling With Agility

December 1, 2016 17 minute read

It’s fifteen years since the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. Since then it seems most large companies have made some attempt to make themselves more agile. Either by adding ‘agile’ as another methodology alongside waterfall in their process framework, or embarking on a Transformation Programme, involving plenty of highly-paid consultants who come with a certificate that says they can recite an agile process fr...