Tag: digitaltransformation
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Reorganizing the dev teams at Visa to take advantage of AI
When you speed up the SDLC process, you should collapse silo’ed teams into one team to prevent human bottlenecks based on handoffs. Here’s that at Visa: As a result of the unlocks we can realize with this new tooling, we are re-forming our product development teams that used to be 10 or more into smaller…
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Relative to your interests, Wednesday
After reading many of the below and other links in elusive enterprise AI ROI, I wrote this theory on how to be successful with enterprise AI projects. It’s the usual “culture” cliché, but hopefully a little more practical than usual. Are PMs becoming irrelevant? – Once you remove the need for a bunch of “paperwork,”…
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AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
AI amplifies what you have: good processes get faster, bad ones get worse. Getting real enterprise AI ROI means changing how you work – structure, focus, scope.
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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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AI won’t fix your broken culture
Expecting AI to improve dysfunctional parts of your business probably won’t go well: The strongest candidates are workflows that repeat at meaningful scale, have clear ownership, and can be measured for quality, risk, and business value. 🔗 How to manage AI investments in the agentic era
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From the school of culture eats technology for breakfast
Yes: The environments capable of creating meaningful change are almost always the ones that shorten the distance between assumption and evidence – ensuring that learning happens before institutions become too committed to decisions that are difficult to reverse. But: The question has never really been whether governments need experimentation. It is whether they are willing…
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find out what actually mattered, scrap the rest of of governance
Map the last 10 decisions that actually mattered, ones that moved budget, shifted a timeline, or changed who owns what. Where did they really get made, and who was in the room? Hold that against your governance charter. If the two lists don’t match, habit is running your business. 🔗 Governance: New Strategy, Old Hands…
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Defeating Conway’s Law
Try using a platform to combat Conway’s Law and organizational friction caused by too many groups/silos. This matters because it removes the structural excuse for fragmentation. When a single platform surfaces all the controls a unified team needs, there is no longer a technical reason to keep five separate teams in five separate rooms. The…
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Do less
For most of modern history, we’ve invested perhaps 10% of our energy in ‘be’ and 90% in ‘do’. The AI era invites (demands?) something closer to the reverse. That’s not a comfortable shift for an industry that prides itself on shipping, but might be the most important thing we build next. 🔗 The Identity Crisis…
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The Internet and social media platforms are now obviously detrimental to collective goods, cooperative politics and sane public debate. From here. I’ve encountered this sentiment a lot recently, even from Ben Thompson. If you take out “the Internet,” it’s probably right. My vibe here is: “human culture can not handle everything, everywhere, all the time.”…
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Digital Transformation Fatigue, and how to get over it – DOGE case study
This is the story of most large IT transformation/modernization efforts. Once the executives that started it leaves, it stops. Then a new one comes in that does almost the opposite. Put all your apps in the cloud, bring all your apps on-premises. Tide goes out, tide comes in. That pattern of course fuels staff “modernization…
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Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web for November 4th, 2024
Code Neo (Pearl Sijmons), Joana Schneider, 2024. Relative to your interests Priorities CIOs Must Address in 2025, Insights from the 2025 Gartner CIO Survey – “only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed their business outcome targets. This statistic highlights a significant challenge for organizations aiming to achieve their digital transformation goals.” // It could…
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Digital transformation strategies focus on reducing costs, upskilling – Highlights from Macroeconomic Outlook, Business Trends – ”Digital transformation focuses on employee productivity and automation. Nearly 44% of respondents either have a formal digital transformation strategy (32%) or are planning to develop one (11%). The primary drivers for adopting a digital transformation strategy are improving efficiency…
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Does Market Share Still Matter? – “we find that the positive relationship between market share and profitability generally still holds, but that it weakens with greater digital transformation. This means that market share increases translate into lower profitability gains for highly digitalized compared to less-digitalized companies. Additionally, it implies that digital transformation benefits smaller firms…
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The Digital Transformation Card Game – an interview
This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast episode is an interview I did with Jana Werner. If you’re into software, DevOps, agile, product management…all that “digital transformation” stuff, you’ll like it. We go over a deck of cards she’s put together that are meant to provoke executives and managers to start thinking about they could change…
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If you’re not changing tools, you’re not changing
All Talk, No Tools I like heuristics you can use to figure out what’s “really” going on at work (well, in any system, I guess). When it comes to Big Change, one of the heuristics I like to use is to ask if the organization is using new tools. My colleague Bryan Ross has a…
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Pair Programming is a great fit for large organizations because of this one unexpected benefit. CLICK NOW.
I have another video today. You’ve heard of pair programming and you probably think it’s bonkers. Not many people benefit from this practice. Here, I go over how teams in the US military have been using pair programming to improve how they do software and spread that change to other teams. Some real DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION!…
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Change Fatigue In Digital Transformation: Where Has All The Value Gone? – Ways to keep the digital transformation alive: Contextualize business outcomes; Share the effort; Share the value; Conduct holistic load management; Target smaller, more frequent wins; Have a playbook; If you can, adjust incentives.
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Singapore Bank DBS: A Blueprint For Digital Transformation In Finance – Nothing on how these changes were done, but a brief “what” of the strategy.
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Some UK digital transformation retros
Just links this episode. Some fantastic #gartnercore From “Technical Insights: Battle of the APIs — Will REST be Toppled by GraphQL, gRPC or AsyncAPI?,” Gary Olliffe, Gartner Relative to your interests Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) – As with most things, the whole SBOM push is probably a lot simpler to solve…
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