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“All User Input is Error” The Key Mindset of Platform Developers
“All user input is error” is a design practice Elon Musk regularly highlights. It’s a profound concept for IT platforms. It expresses what we think separates good platform software from bad. Good platform software delights the developer and helps them do their job...
Cloud-Native Machine Learning Action Plan 5 Critical Steps to ensure Cloud-Native Machine Learning Platform Success
Okay, you picked a cloud-native approach to data and ML platforms, now what? Firstly, congratulations on picking cloud-native. Your company and team will significantly benefit from this approach. If you’re wondering why I am congratulating you, check out this previous...
Platforms Are Products Treating Platforms As Products Is Key to Digital Transformation
Highly consumed platforms are at the foundation of any organization that has navigated modern digital transformation. These platforms are treated as product that both IT and business leaders continually support and invest in. For most of today’s IT leaders, this idea...
Making Sense of the Different Types of DevOps
Everyday someone develops a new flavor or tries to coin a new phrase when it comes to DevOps. MLOps, SRE, AIOps, NetOps, CloudOps etc., are all essentially DevOps. DevOps is the reimagining and optimization of IT management processes and supporting technologies for...
2021 Is the Great Filter for CIOs It’s Time to Enable Digital Transformation or the Business is Going to Find Someone that Will
Introduction 2021 is the time to throw away incremental improvements. CIOs and CTOs need to aggressively establish new capabilities and drive digital transformation. Being aggressive means engaging and partnering with business stakeholders on technology projects that...
The IT Product Owner: A Make or Break Role for Digital Transformation
The role of the IT product owner is required for doing cloud and digital at scale. Enterprise companies that successfully develop digital products know a critical success factor is having a cloud-native platform that’s built as a product for developers and engineers....
Factory vs Cloud-Native Choose Your Path Wisely When It Comes to Data and Machine Learning Success
Introduction Everyone who is shifting to build new technical solutions in the cloud comes upon the same fork in the road. Do we take how we operate today and shift it to work in the cloud, which will provide some incremental benefit? Or do we completely reimagine how...
Architecture isn’t Going Away. It’s just Changing. Gone are the days of a single centralized group.
Cloud, cross-functional teams, product development, and agile are changing what organizations need from their architects. Enterprise IT leaders realize they need to help architects evolve, and this starts by evaluating the major functions of architecture groups....
Backlog Item Sizing with the BreakFree SprintEstimator
The best teams mature through their use of Agile skills, daily standups, retrospectives, and planning sessions being executed by cross-functional team members, product owners, and stakeholders – all going in the same direction. Sizing product backlog items (PBIs) is a...
Busting the DevOps vs ITIL Myth
IT leaders who have successfully driven digital transformation understand that the very idea of DevOps vs ITIL is invalid. These leaders realize it’s a distraction tactic used by vendors and advisors who benefit from IT staying the same or radically changing. The...