Tag: software
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Driven by art, the diffusion of innovation, or just being weird
What is a Life Dedicated to Art? What does it mean to live a life dedicated to art, focused on art? I know what it means and feel like for a software developer to dedicate your life to programming, to technology innovation. It is somewhat indescribable: you just do it because you think it’s important…
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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 to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. – online and in-person
Here’s what I’ve learned in doing 30 (maybe more like 40?) executive events in person and online over the past four or so years. Over my career, I’ve done these on and off, but it’s become a core part of my job since moving to EMEA to support Pivotal and now VMware Tanzu with executives.…
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IRL OKRs – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #60
Family pets as OKRs in FY23. Executives to talk about getting better at software. Scroll to the end to see bacon frying. IRL OKRs New family member. Objective: enhance our comfort, peace of mind, and sense of comradely by owning a dog. Key Result: walk dog three times a day so that it does not…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #55
Original content DevOps Metrics for Technical, Business and Culture Transformation This is the talk I gave at VMworld this year. It goes over three types of metrics to use in all your digital transformation, get better with software stuff. While I don’t list very actionable (yeah! check out that work use!) metrics for culture, I…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #54
Developers don’t actually want to change the batteries. Bruegel Original content Software Defined Talk #328: Your MOM is a SaaS This week we discuss HashiCorp’s S1, AWS Earnings and highlights from Microsoft Ignite. Plus, Coté teaches us a new Dutch phrase. A Shift in Mindset it Critical The missing parts of scaling up DevOps are…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #50
Nothing profound this time. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam Free DevOps conference, DevOps Loop, Oct 4th Promotional gif A conference I helped put together, DevOps Loop, is next week. I’m putting together my presentation “fear of change.” So far, I’m playing around with the notion of going over fear of change in more literary sources. There’s…
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🗂 Link: Bloomberg
](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-13/vw-in-8-billion-software-revamp-as-tech-shift-expands). Source: Bloomberg
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🗂 Link: The Air Force Software Revolution
For example, at Kessel Run, they tried different-sized teams before deciding that about eight people make up the ideal product team. They also learned not every big idea worked as planned. Source: The Air Force Software Revolution
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🗂 Link: Silicon Valley software techniques modernize 75-year-old plant
Raytheon Systems Engineer Sam Sauers and her team spearheaded one of the latest DevOps transformations on the program, introducing Silicon Valley-like processes like paired programming and pipeline development to help the Air Soldier team rapidly develop the technology. “We’re using commercial software best practices, including Agile and DevOps, to get new capabilities in days instead…
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Link: Microsoft milestone: Tech giant’s cloud revenue now matches traditional products, analyst says
“We estimate that FY 4Q 19 was the first time MSFT generated as much revenue from running software in its own data centers, including cloud offerings like Azure and Office 365, as well as LinkedIn, Bing, GitHub and Xbox-Live, as it did from software licenses and upgrades, hardware and professional services,” according to the note…
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Link: Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
You can’t not make things dirty when you cook, but if you don’t clean things quickly, muck dries up, is harder to remove, and all the dirty stuff gets in the way of cooking the next dish. Source: Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
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Link: A Brief History of Agile, Part 1: The Rise of Waterfall
Ultimately, Waterfall’s biggest failing is that it puts its trust in a system, not the people working on a product. Source: A Brief History of Agile, Part 1: The Rise of Waterfall
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Link: Oracle’s Georges Saab on the Impact of Faster Java Releases
When the new six-month cadence was announced there was some talk about “release fatigue.” Have you seen that in the Java community? It’s sort of like asking, if your kids had Christmas twice a year, do you think they’d experience “Christmas fatigue?” The parents might, I guess. What I’m hearing people say now is that…
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Monolithic Transformation
My booklet, Monolithic Transformation is finally out. It collects together the stories and successful tactics large organizations are using to get better at software. You can get a free copy from Pivotal or search around to find it elsewhere.
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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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🗂 Why Do We Need Architectural Diagrams?
> In practice, most stakeholders are not interested in detailed diagrams, but rather in one or two high-level diagrams which reflect the modularity and boundaries of the system. Beyond these, for a deeper understanding, the code should be the source of truth, which in most of the cases only developers are interested in. www.infoq.com/articles/…
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🗂 The U.S. Department of Defense on How To Detect ‘Agile BS’
Tips on finding good agile teams in large organizations: > Are teams delivering working software to at least some subset of real users every iteration (including the first) and gathering feedback? thenewstack.io/the-u-s-d…
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🗂 The Non-Compete Software Movement
> If I want to grab a piece of software and build a business on top of it through my own labor, I need to go elsewhere. I’m not welcome to do that in your house. medium.com/@adamhjk/…
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🗂 Projects versus products, dependency avoidance ed.
> The project/product distinction is an important one for many reasons, so let’s touch on that here for a moment so we don’t conflate or confuse the two, especially since one is more productive than the other. Projects are delivered as one big monolithic thing, meaning that coordinating all the activities within a big release…
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