In the book DevOps for the Modern Enterprise, Mirko talks about being a Knowledge worker:
How do you manage yourself in the world of knowledge workers, where your job changes every couple of years and new tools and technologies get
Our current org structures inhibit how we develop software, and therefore how we deliver on business capabilities. Changing the org structure to feature teams, that are self-sufficient, multidisciplinary and cross-functional will lead to better business results.
We touched a little on Conways Law when we spoke about the importance of culture in digital transformation. Since then, I have dug deeply into Conways Law - its implications are so profound on technology, and how companies are building products.
Tldr:
Making Dilbert proud
For those of us stuck in the corporate world, only we can identify with the craziness of our daily jobs. Normal people just wont understand what it takes just to get simple things done. It's hard to explain how common sense and
Digital Transformations Require Modern Software Delivery
To successfully implement an API-led organization necessary for Digital Transformation requires more than just technology – it requires a transformation of software development capabilities
Case studies of telcos such as Telstra, KPN and adjacent industries show that the leaders are leveraging inhouse Agile
The SDP platform has been a personal journey for me, as I started my career in telco implementing it, over the years I have seen it go through its paces, and now 10 years later, I am migrating services off it to
Book review of Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
In my Reading list post, I listed a book I recently completed. This is my 'book review' of it, of sorts..... After I read this book, I wrote an email to a senior executive, which I have converted into the blog post,
I used to be a voracios reader through primary school and high school, but it kinda stopped somewhere during campus days. I have rekindled it recently, especially with the ability to read on-line (my preference is Google Play Books on Android), although
Personality
This is a brave post, by opening up the details of my personality, I am hoping others will know what makes me tick, what drives me, what scares me, and what makes me do the things I do. This essentially answers the
It's one thing reading about the extreme DevOps practices of the unicorns (Google, Facebook, etc), and it's completely another thing trying to adopt DevOps in a legacy organisation. Thats why it's reassuring to
In a previous post, we spoke in depth about product/feature teams. In this post, I want to talk about a Platform team, that will support the platform used by the feature teamsIn
When ever we talk about APIs, people always think about the legacy ESB/SOA/ESF stack. They are not meant to solve the same problems.SOA uses APIs – that’s about the only
Originally hereIn the book DevOps for the Modern Enterprise, Mirko talks about being a Knowledge worker:How do you manage yourself in the world of knowledge workers, where your job changes every couple
After passing Solutions Architect Associate in January, I started on studying for the Developer Associate (DVA-CO1), which I passed in March. I was advised there is a lot of overlap with Solutions Architect,
Over the last few years, I have written a few times about hiring, specifically in this post I suggested that companies schedule all interviews in one day, to cut down on the time