Tag: IT
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Making long-term projects more agile, less waterfall
Replace multi-year forecasts with real-time discovery of operational friction. Instead of a five-year requirement for a “targeting system,” identify the bottleneck–like a three-hour targeting approval process. Set a goal–like reducing the approval process to 30 minutes. And empower a team to solve it. In this Kessel Run example, the requirement was an outcome, not a…
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Good O-Rings and Bad O-Rings, the AI Efficiency Plateau, and Anti-Labor by Design – Related to your interests, Thursday
Also: Goldman’s 24x token forecast, Indian IT’s process-debt pitch, NatWest’s 35% AI-generated code, Gartner’s 84% productivity theater, vibesec. From: “AI Agents Forecast to Boost Tech Cash Flow as Usage Soars,” Goldman, May, 2026 Related to your interests ‘I’m delighted to be wrong’: Sam Altman says AI won’t lead to a ‘jobs apocalypse’ – but admits…
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the reason the 2000 bug didn’t destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because we caught it and spent thousands of hours fixing it BEFORE the year 2000 🔗 I wish we had spent the last 26 years…
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Containers running in VMs 4ever
“IDC forecasts that nearly 85% of all containers will continue running inside VMs through 2028 because enterprises trust the virtualization layer for governance, security, and operational control.” 🔗 Why a Single Platform for VMs and Containers Is the Future of Modern IT
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Day 2 AI looms
Achieving enterprise AI ROI still tough: According to a recent Gartner poll, over half (53%) of participants were exploring Agentic AI, whereas 25% were piloting it and only 6% had reached production mode. The high exploration and pilot percentages suggest strong interest and perceived potential in Agentic AI. However, ==the low production percentage implies barriers…
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$30bn of $6tn
‘“The availability of AI devices has also boosted overall spending by more than $30 billion,” Lovelock said. “With the replacement cycle unchanged, the stronger performance in 2025 will result in a lower relative growth rate for 2026, as demand has been pulled forward.”’ 🔗 Global IT spend to exceed $6 trillion in 2026
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Training for Legacy – Press Pass
Training for Legacy – Press Pass Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson asked me recently for advice on working with legacy applications. Check out her piece on it. Here’s the full reply I sent to her in email: Her topics: – The steps someone could take to get themselves up to speed on their employer’s legacy software. –…
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Is Your IT Organization A Ponzi Scheme? – “The only way out is to stop borrowing against the future and start paying down the past. Escaping requires sustained platform investment — enough to reach equilibrium where debt stops growing. This means: Refactoring to improve code structure and reduce the cost of future changes. Refreshing technologies…
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Five Vide Coding Lessons for the Enterprise – ‘In an enterprise, the “context window” isn’t just a technical term; it’s the accumulated technical debt, undocumented tribal knowledge, and complex dependencies that hold your systems together. A new developer or a new AI tool can’t simply be dropped in and expected to understand this history. The…
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Remembering Dominic Pannell: Dom’s Framework for Influencer Ecosystem Mapping – Managing the people who influence enterprise It buying.
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2025 Sees Inflection Point for Government: A Shift to Private Cloud – “more than 70 percent of government IT leaders are considering repatriating workloads from public cloud to private cloud and nearly 50 percent say they have already begun that repatriation process.”
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Private Cloud’s Comeback: Driving the Enterprise IT Reset –
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‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft –
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Beyond Launch – ‘In enterprise environments, silence gets interpreted as stagnation. Stakeholders will assume “if I’m not hearing about progress, there probably isn’t any” – and they’re usually right!’
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Still a lot – private cloud check-in, Spring 2025
Where are the workloads? Let’s check in on how much private there is nowadays. I think it’s somewhere in the range of 40% to 60% of workloads1 globally. If you narrow down to “enterprises” (let’s say organization that have 5,000, even 10,000 employees), my sense is that the number goes way up, maybe 70%. The…
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The new economics of enterprise technology in an AI world – This is a strange collage of IT project success and failure. I think it’s saying that if your IT projects don’t show legible business improvement. They’re considered a failure. // Also, you have to look at an IT project as a big system, not…
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Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong – Latest in “why do IT projects fail?” Research.
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Most Externalities are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination – ”Economics should emphasize the importance of technology as a solution to externality problems and focus less on social coordination.” // Does this apply to IT where we often say “technology is easy, culture is hard.”
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How to find waste with the robot
My first law of enterprise AI: if you end up having two robots talk with each other to complete a task, that task was bullshit in the first place, and you should probably eliminate it rather than automate it. For example, if AI is used in both sides of B2B procurement (enterprise software sales), then…
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Drive Scale And Speed With The Platform Org Model – 59% of respondents have using a platform instead of whole bunch of different platforms as a priority. // Enterprise want the benefits of centralized, standardized IT stacks. Always. DIY platforms and shadow platforms (sprawl od accidental platforms) is often a bad idea. Your platform needs…
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