Tag: bigco
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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find your customer
Compensation theater: Everyone cares about the compensation (base salary, bonus, and stock). That’s the data they care about, but where did this pile of compensation come from? Who decided how big it is? And how is it allocated? It is a long, complicated, and large process that began over a year ago. Every meeting I…
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How AI change your software development organization
A catch-up with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of the Tanzu Division at Broadcom, on what her team has actually learned shipping enterprise software with AI for the last year and a half: code generation is the small part, beautiful code is the new uncanny valley, and you cannot solve the agent boundary problem from inside the…
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When management is the bottleneck preventing enterprise AI ROI.
Right now, many companies already have the technology they need to go much faster. The blocker is company systems that are mostly designed to prevent things from happening. The power is centralized and all the team members are treated like a risk vector. Exhausting approval cycles, super tight boundaries on roles, unbreakable title-based hierarchies, and…
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How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
Via geralt on Pixabay When an executives says layoffs were driven by AI, what exactly is the AI doing that removes the need for those humans? Here’s some dog-walk speculation. Decks, Meetings, etc. All the prep work around The Meeting. Things like: the agenda, slides, the pre-read, notes during the meeting, and followup tracking. There’s…
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Got your deck ready?
Image by geralt on Pixabay. The mystery is why everyone is using presentation software for communication that is not a presentation. Predicable, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this post since first reading it. The mystery of this is that everyone complains about slides-driven work cultures, but the revealed preference is that people…
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The end of the meat-mouse
The agency in agentic AI feels a lot more like giving the users – the humans – agency they didn’t have. That’s what’s making it useful for me, from sorting out dumb-shit home-networking incompatibilities, figuring out taxes, and otherwise sorting my shit out. When you unleash something like Claude code on all the messy and…
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If you have PowerPoint pillars, your organization probably has strategy BO. From The Octopus Organization.
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This is at big tech companies. Imagine how it is at but normal companies. Better or worse? 🔗 How good engineers write bad code at big companies
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The ultimate bike-shedding story, and, always make your own slides
Steve Jobs had a lot of feedback on the original calculator app. He sent the programmer on a rock-fetching canard, demanding changes each day and then finding new things he didn’t like. Eventually, the developer just added an extra window, below, that allowed Jobs to tinker with all the UI aspects. That ended the back…
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Survive the next meeting
This is a mode I catch myself in where all I’m focused on is getting through the next meeting. “Getting through” means running out the clock so that it’s over, getting out of it without any new work, and especially without “getting in trouble” for something. Obviously, this is bad most of the time as…
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Always have a pitch ready
”Organizational interest comes in waves. When it’s reliability time, VPs are desperate to be doing something. They want to come up with plausible-sounding reliability projects that they can fund, because they need to go to their bosses and point at what they’re doing for reliability, but they don’t have the skillset to do it on…
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How to avoid working too much
Surviving and Thriving in a BigCo If you work in a large organization, you’ll like this new video series I did with O’Reilly. Check out the intro above, and here’s the topics covered: Cultivate your Style and Character. How does a BigCo Work? Mentors are Nice, Champions are Better. Asking Questions Leads to Homework for…
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When you hear the word “input,” run – avoiding unpaid work at work
Thriving in a BigCo: Avoiding homework, and assigning homework I’m working on a video series with O’Reilly based on my working and thriving in a BigCo talks. Here’s a little storyboarding I did on one topic to avoid having too much work that’s not part of your job, a concept I call “homework.” The young…
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The “Be Nice” product and marketing strategy for open source enterprise stuff
Early on in the life of a new open source project, some vendors will tell you it’s too complex and unreliable, and wrap their fixes on top of it, often hiding the project. They’re not wrong (early in, most OSS projects are literally not even 1.0 projects yet!), but it’s rhetorically risky strategy. With the…
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Reluctance to change – Notebook
I’ve proposed an open spaces for DevOpsDays Amsterdam, 2021. The idea is: The DevOps community pushes for people to change how they think and operate. When it comes to working better, we have proven tools, techniques, and even big picture ways of thinking like CALMS. You’re more than likely eager to try these new things,…
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Everyone knows their problems, so jump to the solution
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan. In most enterprise tech marketing copy, it’s an anti-pattern to do the whole “you must first invent the universe” thing. Buyers and curious people already know that there’s market headwinds, things change faster than ever, new technologies,…
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🗂 Link: ‘Rijksoverheid al 4 jaar in de clinch met Oracle’
According to the confidential memo, Oracle’s routine tactic is to threaten based on incompliance and to maximize potential licensing issues. After that, software licenses and the looming costs of such licenses can be negotiated from such a beaten problem. The result can then be a relatively better than expected amount for the shocked customer, but…
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🗂 Link: IBM i Clouds Proliferating At Rapid Clip – IT Jungle
“We partnered with Google because Google wanted to partner with us and Amazon didn’t want to partner with us,” IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will said during a panel discussion at the inaugural POWERUp conference in San Antonio, Texas, in June 2018. “So hey Google is going to succeed with Power. Now I have Amazon…
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🗂 Link: USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs – SiliconANGLE
While Docker may be able to secure additional capital, it’s yet another company that finds itself in an ominous position after raising mounds of cash during the heady days earlier this decade. When Bearden joined in May, he became the fourth CEO and the third since 2017, replacing Steve Singh, a former senior executive at…
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