Suggested theme song for this episode: 30% in 2025 implies low use in 2023 From the recent Gartner Marketing Symposium highlights:
64% of marketers have deployed, or are piloting, AI/ML to support autonomous campaign creation, execution, and optimization capabilities. [But:] Gartner predicts that by 2025, 30% of outbound marketing messages from large organizations will be synthetically generated.
If you’re in marketing, you need to be using ChatGPT (or WHATEVER) today, as much as possible.
Cutting Costs by Cutting Waste - Instead of removing travel, R&D, etc. (which were thought to be required for your goals at once), focus on removing waste: Excessive risk management, analysis paralysis, unproductive meetings, imbalance of doing/watching, manual bureaucracy/toil.
How Agile Value Management Creates Value Faster - Some metrics for measuring progress.
On-Premises Cloud Is a Failure. Google Has the Fix - Or you could run Cloud Foundry and call it a day.
Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes
Read to the end to see an illustration of the inner workings of cloud infrastructure.
For all the interest in Kubernetes, there’s not actually many apps running on it right now. Gartner’s Wataru Katsurashima estimates that “by 2027, 25 percent of all enterprise applications will run in containers, an increase from fewer than 10 percent in 2021.” When I look at that, it makes me think that, I don’t know, there’s at best 15% of apps running in kubernetes this year.
First Attempt at Gathering DORA Metrics - Not easy.
It’s the agile mindset that matters for local government - getting local government to do agile is difficult - “Local government culture is heavily business case driven, where funding is unlocked by making promises around outcomes in one, two or more years’ time. There’s also decades of learned behaviour to overcome, where people are just used to things being ‘finished’ and having projects plans with lots of lovely milestones in them.” And: “I like to boil down the agile mindset to three core, very simple ideas. That work is better when: (1) We break big problems down into smaller, more manageable one (2) We get working things into the hands of real users as quickly as possible, and act on their feedback (3) We work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams”
Day 868 and Chunks - Knowing what your or your organization’s goals are in enough difficult to come up with a to do list is difficult.
The secret of selling your product to enterprises - Sales is hard and expensive because of all the time and activities it takes, only the multi-quarter timeline, etc.