Spreading lean software in an enterprise: Get stakeholders to think in terms of the end-to-end value stream, not just piece parts. Break down big programs and strategies into smaller parts, down to a month. Makes sense. www.infoq.com/news/2018…

> Big Red, which has been struggling to gain foothold in the cloud market, is looking to make applications and integration the order of 2019 to help it win 50 per cent of the corporate apps market. www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/2…

> Big Red, which has been struggling to gain foothold in the cloud market, is looking to make applications and integration the order of 2019 to help it win 50 per cent of the corporate apps market. www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/2…

Cleaning up that grocery store game. www.cnbc.com/2019/01/2…

Cleaning up that grocery store game. www.cnbc.com/2019/01/2…

Matt Baker’s concise history and path to the “multi-cloud” thought-technology: > “The definition and the usage of the term cloud has been hotly debated for the past decade, changing significantly over the years from access to computing resources over the internet to now reflecting an operating model designed to help IT. One that is agile and delivers IT as a service, while reducing costs through efficiencies, and managing risk, regardless of locality.

Matt Baker’s concise history and path to the “multi-cloud” thought-technology: > “The definition and the usage of the term cloud has been hotly debated for the past decade, changing significantly over the years from access to computing resources over the internet to now reflecting an operating model designed to help IT. One that is agile and delivers IT as a service, while reducing costs through efficiencies, and managing risk, regardless of locality.

> There is also the cost of different people thinking about data differently because they are working with different platforms and not really speaking the same language as each other. I hear about this all the time from customers. They’ll have two people from their own organisation pitch up in a meeting with two different answers to the same questions, supposedly from the same data source. > But those data sources are being run through different platforms and end up getting corrupted or changed or amended.

> There is also the cost of different people thinking about data differently because they are working with different platforms and not really speaking the same language as each other. I hear about this all the time from customers. They’ll have two people from their own organisation pitch up in a meeting with two different answers to the same questions, supposedly from the same data source. > But those data sources are being run through different platforms and end up getting corrupted or changed or amended.

“Lock-in” is about switching costs (a Simon Phipps put it long ago, “the freedom to leave”) and can thus be considered strategically, even financially, rather than numbing, stupefying FUD. aws.amazon.com/blogs/ent…