Tag: bigco
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Management, as practiced by a young IBM
Of course, there were countercurrents. Managers wanted to control activities. That impetus for control and management of potential risks led to the rise of bureaucracy, characterized by highly defined processes. Generations of executives micromanaged people all the way down the organization while fighting the growth of paperwork and “signoffs.” Such behavior also originated with Watson…
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Pumping the digital transformation bunny at the US Air Force, an interview with Bryon Kroger
Few organizations have or rely on as much software the US Air Force. There’s plenty of it around and, thus, plenty to be improved. In recent years, one of the more spectacular digital transformation stories has come from the USAF’s work modernizing their Air Operations Control software. In this episode, USAF’s Bryon Kroger goes over…
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CI/CD acquisitions
Oracle acquired Werker – April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs – Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired Codeship – Feb 2018 Idera acquired Travels CI – Jan 2019 Jfrog acquired Shippable – Feb 2019 From my co-worker, Nima.
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🗂 The Gig Economy is Actually Pretty Tiny – Nextgov
> According to the data, in May 2017, just 1 percent of workers were “gig economy workers whose tasks were electronically mediated,” or sourced through technology platforms like Uber, Upwork or TaskRabbit. > Moreover, in the workforce as a whole, 89.9 percent of people had a standard work arrangement as their main job, slightly up…
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PayPal’s IT catalog in 2014
> The new structure would include nine hundred applications, thirty thousand end-user devices, twenty-five thousand e-mail accounts, nineteen hundred vendor contracts, three new data centers, one of the largest enterprise data warehouses in the world, and the addition of five thousand new servers, with the recreation, cloning, or moving of another nine thousand across sixty…
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🗂 Pie-charts and proactive app introductions
> Send in a mole: “Find one really smart engineering type in your IT organization and put them on a skunk works project with one engineer,” Martin-Flickinger advises. “You need to identify an IT person who looks and smells like a product engineer; it needs to be someone the engineering people like.” If you do…
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🗂 The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT
> IBM used to be the bellwether, then it was HPE for a while when it was just called Hewlett Packard, and now it seems to be Dell Technologies. www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/0…
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🗂 Coaching CD change leaders
> Burke identified a few key architects who believed in the automated continuous delivery model and coached them to bring the vision to the rest of the team. “Through the influence of these leaders, the people who had been terrified to automate development were starting to get excited about it.” www.cio.com/article/2…
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🗂 VMware’s ongoing reinvention
Post server virtualization at VMware. www.networkworld.com/article/3…
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🗂 VMware offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser
Following the usual, clear portfolio for open source infrastructure. www.zdnet.com/article/v…
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🗂 Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey
Replacing human agents with AI, matching it to the right sales workflow: > “So we watched how this was going very closely,” he said. “We’d review transcripts from the early customer interactions, verbatim transcripts, to see how people are reacting in a conversation with Watson – because they didn’t know it was Watson.” > >…
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🗂 bol.com CIO interview
> The strength of our IT department is that IT is fully integrated in our organization. About 400 IT people or engineers work at bol.com, and they are organized as much as possible in about 70 small, multidisciplinary and self-managing teams. We see that that works best. These teams build features for our customers or…
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🗂 Kubernetes Culture Change
> Thus we’ve seen a bunch of Kubernetes services spring up, run by the same people who brought you all the other Infrastructures-as-a-Service. Google (from whence Kubernetes emerged originally) has Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon has Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Microsoft has Azure Container Service (AKS), VMware has VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE), you…
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🗂 Software Chasms with Martin Casado
> The unending chasm describes a mode in which an infrastructure company must function as both a product company and a consultancy. Your consultancy is necessary to integrate your product into the enterprise, and ensure that your software actually gets used. But it reduces the appealing economics of a pure software company. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/2…
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🗂 Speak up more
> If you’re authentic and fully invested in making an impact while enhancing the experience of those around you, then you strengthen your case. Conversely, if you’re inauthentic or let yourself be silenced in the moments that matter, your case weakens every time you withdraw. www.strategy-business.com/blog/Good…
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🗂 “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”
> my company is based in Oakland. This is like being based in San Francisco, but with fewer microclimates. Rolling up to work in a company hoodie, jeans, a t-shirt from your last company, and a pair of Tevas is A-OK. But the further east you go, the more formal everyone’s business wear gets. Jeans…
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🗂 Oracle’s priorities for 2019? Repeat this handy mantra: Applications! Automation! Integration!
> 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…
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🗂 Focusing on Business Outcomes at Barclays: Overcoming the “Urgency Paradox”
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…
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🗂 Microsoft signs cloud deal with Albertsons
Cleaning up that grocery store game. www.cnbc.com/2019/01/2…
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