Tag: IT
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Shadow IT guidance – Advice from the UK government: “Though clearly not desirable, the existence of shadow IT presents your organisation with learning opportunities. If employees are having to resort to insecure workarounds in order to ‘get the job done’, then this suggests that existing policies need refining so that staff aren’t compelled to make…
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Forrester VMware Executive Checklist for DevEx – “75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly.” And, a DevEx definition: “DevEx represents the skills, tools, frameworks, and methodologies aimed at creating, maintaining, and enhancing code throughout the software delivery lifecycle…
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Workin’ for the Man – This is how most all request driven processes (you have to file a ticket) end up being gamed by users: “So I think the winning technique is simply to flood their input queue with issues and eventually one will find a chink in the armour and reach an intelligent human…
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IT is asked to do more, and sometimes with more budget!
Updates to the VMware app runtimes If you’re into platform engineering, the two VMware platforms have some announcements today that you’ll be interested in: Tanzu Application Platform v1.5 – There’s faster ways to get it installed, security improvements, tighter integration with Spring Boot apps, and a lot more. Rita gives some highlights: “Enhanced IDE support…
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The Silo Unifier’s Paradox
If no one owns the problem, no one can fix it – The Silo Unifier’s Paradox Solving the IT silo problem is challenging as there’s no one person responsible for the entire process. Each solo is owned by different groups like software developers, operations, security, project managers, and more. These groups often have competing goals,…
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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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How much on-premises is out there?
Hot new epigraph for daily life: There’s probably a lot of things I should be doing, but I’ve gotten good at not doing them. Mid-week edition Boy, in this issue you have a ramble – and then I lost energy and needed to get on with my day. I’ve written this issue up many times…
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🗂 Link: IT departments spend millions tackling performance issues in complex IT
The vast majority of CIOs expect to deploy new technology stacks in the next 12 months. Most CIOs said they are already using or are planning to deploy microservices (88%), containers (86%), serverless computing (85%), PaaS (89%), SaaS (94%), IaaS (91%) and private cloud (95%) in the next 12 months. … CIO responses captured in…
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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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Link: Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology)
In terms of the best integration architecture, what seems to me the only long-term solution is something like the unified log architecture that Jay Kreps wrote about back in 2013. All incoming writes need to go into a centralized log, such as Kafka, and then from there the various databases can pull what they need,…
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Link: Shipping giant Maersk on taking a cloud-first approach to disrupting the competition
“When we moved to the cloud the first time, we cut down the lead time for an environment from 100 days to 85 days. This is self-inflicted lead time… processes that are keeping you from moving faster,” he said. “We also had 30 people involved in a classic delivery, and we figured the cost was…
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Link: How Dick’s Sporting Goods’ CTO untangles spaghetti silos
There’s a level of empathy needed for those on the frontline when making business decisions, especially decisions related to IT. Effective leaders are concerned with making the right call, said Gaffney. Ineffective leaders tend to implement practices and approaches that take small incremental de-risking steps, “led by dates and budgets and not happy humans.” Source:…
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Link: A new player in a new game
Like most other ‘new generation’ IT providers, Fastly plays up its growth rate while playing down the cost of that growth. Sales at the company rose about 40%, year over year, in 2018 to $145m. In comparison, Akamai is a single-digit percentage grower, although it is roughly 10 times larger than Fastly. Fastly also runs…
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Link: Exploring the “Unknown Unknowns” in IT-enabled Digital Transformation Estimates
These low-ball estimates are sometimes provided by consultants working to get their foot in the door, or by executive sponsors working to gain approval for their programs. Excluding low-ball estimates, the primary cause of poor estimates tends to be a lack of experience and background of the leader. Source: Exploring the “Unknown Unknowns” in IT-enabled…
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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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🗂 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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🗂 Digital Transformation, IT, and the Rest of the Company – The New Stack
thenewstack.io/digital-t…
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🗂 Achieving Multi-Cloud Flexibility
Matt Baker’s concise history and path to the “multi-cloud” thought-technology: > “The definition and the usage of the term cloud has been hotly debated for the past decade, changing significantly over the years from access to computing resources over the internet to now reflecting an operating model designed to help IT. One that is agile…
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Link: Air Force wants to make ‘Kessel Run’ standard in tech acquisition
“You’re probably going to see maybe a directive from us that basically says every acquisition is going to have to have something that looks like Kessel Run from the primes. So you want to have [authority to operate] within three or four weeks, not six years.” Original source: Air Force wants to make ‘Kessel Run’…
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Link: Lessons from the UK Government’s Digital Transformation Journey
It’s probably OK: In any organisation that’s been around for a while, ways of doing things build up and often disconnect from the reasons they were put in place. Things are cited as “rules” which are really just norms. We had to get really good at working out the difference, and on pushing back on…
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