Year: 2023
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Taking a careful approach to AI in marketing – There’s a lot of analysis that we should all be doing with marketing, but it’s often hard to get at data and figure out what to do with it. // “Fifteen percent said that more than a quarter of their tasks today are intelligently automated, but…
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The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World – “I remember feeling giddy most of time we were in production, not from the legendary amount of pot consumed, but from anticipation that we were going to blow people’s minds. We were excited and felt lucky to have an audience for our artwork.”
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Tech companies should do regional events more
Small, regional events are probably better than the mega-conference I’m starting to think that small, regional events are much – like much – more important for enterprise software sales than the big, annual events. In enterprise sales (where you’re looking to work for a few years to build up multi-million dollar deals), you’re usually targeting…
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How Can CIOs Communicate the Business Value of IT? – Talk with biz-normals about how technology can make the organization better, not on the activities that’s required to do so: “IT demonstrates value when we enable business outcomes, not when we report effort expended, resources consumed or work done…. Highlight the impact technology can have…
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UK.gov efficiency hurt as legacy tech upgrades stall – Security is always the FUD-stick: “Dame Meg Hillier MP, PAC chair, said: ‘Whitehall’s digital services, far from transforming at the pace required, are capable of only piecemeal and incremental change. Departments’ future-proofing abilities are hobbled by staff shortages, and a lack of support, accountability and focus…
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US Banks Must Get Ready For Open Banking Now – Banks and regulations: the source of enterprise tech spend! It’ll probably make banking better for individuals too.
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What is an Authority to Operate (ATO)? – Governance in the military.
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Salesforce CEO takes another bold stand on remote work – Another chapter in the no one knows WTF on WFH deal saga: “For my people that’s my message. They need to mix in person and remote together. Our engineers are extremely productive at home. We have lots of people who are extremely productive at home.…
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DevOps Patterns for Private Equity: Technology organization strategies for high performing software investments – Wait, wut? As someone in the Software Defined Slack quipped, this should really be sponsored by Thomo Bravo, Silverlake, Vista, etc.
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VMware Introduces Frameworks And Services At Explore Conference To Enable Enterprise Adoption Of Generative AI – Quick analysis of VMware’s AI strategy.
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Everyone is Busy: Who Has Time to Transform? – Mark tries to crack the “how to engineer a corporate structure, plan, and incentive plan to actually change” problem of digital transformation. I think the answer is: make small goals that you do on a short (quarterly) basis instead giant, waterfall annual strategy plans. // “My…
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The purpose of enterprise airport ads
The week so far, a selection I don’t really know what “platform engineering” is Last episode I shared the the email Q&A I had for an article about platform engineering. The finished article is up, much nicer edited than just copy and pasting my email. It’s part of the buzz around the SHIFT conference next…
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What exactly is “developer experience”?
Press Pass I’m speaking at the SHIFT conference next week in Zadar, Croatia. Here’s some questions they asked me ahead of time for their ShiftMag outlet. I’m not sure why, but I didn’t send the third one in and saved it up for this here newsletter. (1) Where do you stand in the DevOps vs.…
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Focusing on just outcomes leads to whacky tech decisions
Confusing outcomes with capabilities I don’t have this sorted out well, but the baby keeps crawling on me to remind me to chill the fuck out about being a professional thought leader and be more of a professional dad. (That’s right, I’m blaming my three year old for the shoddiness of the below!) In the…
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It’s hard to make content from 20 yeas of transcripts
In Iowa I was in Des Moines this week to give one of the keynotes at DevOpsDays Des Moines (it went well). Here’s some snapshots from around town: CEO Therapy This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss Netflix’s DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts…
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HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business – Extensive look into the HasiCorp financials and talk of their OSS licensing shift.
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Forrester’s Impressions: VMware Explore 2023 – A brief overview of VMware’s strategy and where Forrester thinks it going.
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: What It Really Means When Budget Is The Reason For The Breakup – Something that’s not useful isn’t worth paying for.
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The Works of Mars, 1671 – Fortification engineering.
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Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird – Looks like fun, right?
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