Tag: 451Reports
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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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The Lost Ingredient – An Elderwood Adventure
Overview The Lost Ingredient is an adventure that takes place in the city of Aurel’s Reach and the surrounding Elderwood. The player, a new apprentice to Thanlin, a powerful but forgetful elven alchemist, is tasked with finding a rare ingredient, the Luminescent Elder Lily, for a potion that Thanlin has been brewing. The adventure involves…
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Cloud-native approaches are now default software development practices – Highlights from a recent 451 survey. “Many organizations using cloud native expect their adoption of these technologies and architectures to become more ubiquitous over time. Among companies using cloud-native resources, approximately 60% say more than half of their applications are currently architected using cloud native, rising…
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If Books Could Kill – The Podcast Review #01
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and have for, I don’t know, over 20 years. I’ve made and make a lot of podcasts. You might call me both a podcast listening and podcast creating expert. In the classic sense: a critic. I should review podcasts more frequently! If Books Could Kill – Worth the…
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How legacy tech can kill recruiting efforts, increase attrition and ruin the employee experience, Conner Forrest – “451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Workforce Productivity & Collaboration, Employee Lifecycle & HR 2023 survey listed “candidates expect software or tools we haven’t adopted” as the top recruitment challenge (52%) they face. To put that into context,…
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What Computers Do At Banks, deployment frequencies, some platform engineering, microservices nothing burger(?)
What Computers Do At Banks Here’s two diagrams from a 2021 BCG report on banking that show, basically, everything that IT does for the business part of retail banking. First, the “value streams,” or lines of business and products: Second, what the typical IT stacks look like to support these value streams: Pretty good stuff!…
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Jalapeños are pickled, but pickles aren’t jalapeños
Confusion Over Pickles Burger King in Antwerp, Nov 14th, 2018. In Ghent, for a quick dinner, I went to Burger King. I ordered a burger – the “steakhouse” or something, which was a mistake because as Texan, I can’t stand sweet BBQ sauce, but it was fine. When I went to the counter to pick…
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“catatonic leadership”
Found by my mother! 2023 IT Spending Forecasts from Gartner and Forester – software and cloud stuff has good/OK growth Summary: There’s always money in the banana stand. Gartner’s IT spend prediction: Worldwide IT spending is projected to total \$4.5 trillion in 2023, an increase of 2.4% from 2022, according to the latest forecast by…
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Structure and Control
Do you really like winging it, or do you like more structure? And, of course, the emptying of the waste book and links relevant to your interests. Suggested epigraph: “I don’t care that much.” Suggested theme song: Why Choose by Shopping First, this Platform Engineering Follow-up Thinking I think what I missed in my thinking…
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What’s with the subscription revenue obsession?; what’s your synergies?; een huishouden van Jan Steen
This is a long edition. What can I say? The deal here is to empty out my “notebook” at least once a week no matter how short or long. I was in Warsaw for a day this week: Prague and Brussels next, and then not too much until VMware Explore EU in November. I hope.…
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First, Belgian mayonnaise, and then: PHENOMENA, TRENDS AND BUSINESS MODELS SHAPING DIGITAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES
It’s one of my daughter’s birthday this weekend, she’s 9. The days go by! 7 Interviews At VMware Explore last week, Alex Williams and I did seven interviews. They were actually a presentation and then an interview. Check them out! Promo! First, I’m hosting a panel talk this week, online, with three people – we’ll…
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How to Have Fun at Executive Dinners, Urgency
I’m in Istanbul for a talk at Java Days Istanbul tomorrow. I’ve been publishing stuff to my old blog a lot at cote.io/notebook, which is fun. Here are two things, one a quick link to a piece I’ve been sitting in for awhile about doing “executive dinners” and then a write-up of the need for…
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The #legacytrap kills flexibility – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #52
Another take at writing up why app modernization is important for business, and the usual links to stuff and my recent podcasts, etc. Smuggling in Modernization I’m working on a project I call the #legacytrap. Trying to explain to executives (CIOs and non-IT executives) how important it is to modernize your old stacks of IT,…
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🗂 Link: Goldman Sachs brings on co-CIO, CTO
The strategy has four parts, according to the presentation. The investment bank wants to: Offer a digital client experience Increase automation Build scalable infrastructure Make room for innovation To do so, Goldman Sachs is using 45% of its $4 billion engineering budget in 2019 on investment. The other 55% will be used to run the…
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🗂 Link: The Rise of Amazon
the losses Amazon experienced in its first *21 quarters as a public company*. Over that time, cumulative net income was -$2.86 billion. Source: The Rise of Amazon
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🗂 Link: On-premise IT-voorziening komt nog steeds het meest voor in Nederland
more than three-quarters of Dutch companies have an on-premise IT facility Source: On-premise IT-voorziening komt nog steeds het meest voor in Nederland
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Monolithic Transformation, the webinar
I’ve got a newly recorded webinar, covering my Monolithic Transformation book: The cliché we all recite is that technology isn’t the problem, culture is. Put another way: if the hardware and software are fine and fresh, it must be the meatware that smells. Come hear several de-funking recipes from the world’s largest companies whose meat…
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Link: Facebook’s local news project frustrated – by lack of local newspapers
The definition of not enough: The company deems a community unsuitable for Today In if it cannot find a single day in a month with at least five news items available to share. And: Some 1,800 newspapers have closed in the US over the last 15 years, according to the University of North Carolina. Newsroom…
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🗂 Digital Transformation, IT, and the Rest of the Company – The New Stack
thenewstack.io/digital-t…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #45
I’ve spent most of my content-time this week editing Monolithic Transformation. It’s rewording to simplify text here and there, and even better to slice out whole paragraphs. 18 pages in, I’ve reduced it by 3 pages. Let’s say I hit 1 page per 10, then the 82 page book will whittle down to, what, 74…
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