Articles Tagged ‘delivery’

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Killing The Sacred Cows

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Thumbnail image for 'Killing The Sacred Cows' what? killing the whatnow? A lot of businesses say they want to be ‘digital.’ And I think when they say that they mean two things: (A) they want to create an end-to-end suite of slick apps for their customers to enable them to self-serve, have a great experience, develop some love for the brand (B) they want a delivery capability to m...

Moving to the Cloud

12 minute read

Thumbnail image for 'Moving to the Cloud' 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 su...

Risk-Free Development

9 minute read

Thumbnail image for 'Risk-Free Development' it’s just a jump to the left 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 plan...

Death By Customer

9 minute read

Thumbnail image for 'Death By Customer' and so we pulled the developers’ teeth out to reduce snack time breaks 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 c...

Software Economics

15 minute read

Thumbnail image for 'Software Economics' Now the project was fundedwe could all go back to playing Candy Crush Software projects cost a lot of money. Some of them stretch to sums that would have made Howard Hughes cry like a two-year-old being babysat by Marilyn Manson. It’s lucky that so many are funded by big companies and government institutions with deep, continuously-fill...