31/07/2015
Over the last year or so I have had the privilege (that’s what I keep telling myself!) of being the architect on a project within Infrastructure that has required some application development. As is the fashion it has been operated as an Agile project. I remember going out to dinner 6 months in with peers from a range of organisations…
06/06/2015
BAU – a wonderfully innocuous 3 letters and such a reassuring acronym “Business as Usual”. “How risky is this change?” – “BAU”; “How complex is it to add capacity” – “BAU”. BAU lies at the heart of our daily working lives, yet how much time do we afford to reviewing those BAU processes? Are we sure that BAU tasks are…
23/05/2015
Proponents of DevOps talk of how they are breaking down the walls between development and operations, often they will talk about feedback loops – especially if they are Agile advocates. Feedback loops – we used to call it “talking” and as companies get larger and become Enterprises talking becomes harder as silos form. Restarting the conversation between the silos is…