In this special episode I say hello after two years in silence, and I share what has been going on in the meantime. I wrote… Read More »HUMAN SOFTWARE: How We Treat Each Other At Work

What is a platform? How does one appear and what do you do with it when you have one? Exploring the line between planned organisational… Read More »That One Script You Wrote is Now a Platform

To kick off a new season, I start with a deep dive into the QUEST framework-which-isn’t-a-framework. QUEST is a mnemonic that helps you remember essential… Read More »The QUEST for Better Software: Happier Teams and Happier Customers

Do you hate legacy or do you love it? Do you accept it or do you want to stamp it out? This time I talk… Read More »Avoiding Legacy? DDD, Collaborative Architecture and Product Thinking with Nico Krijnen

We are bombarded with the need for business change – which means systems change. At the same time, we need to be faster, safer and… Read More »The Business of Legacy – Making Software Change Successful

I talk to Jonathan Hall about all things DevOps from small companies to large companies and where the customer fits in the often technical story… Read More »Interview with Jonathan Hall – Talking DevOps, Go and Continuous Delivery in Reverse

What does it mean to support, extend or even replace a monolith and should we even try? This time I explore the landscape as it… Read More »Emergent Architectures and Beating the Monolith

I talk to Dani Grant, the CEO and co-founder of Jam about their browser-based bug reporting solution and how it improves the bug-fixing experience for… Read More »Dani Grant from Jam talking about Building Better Bug Reporting

Not all engineers are equally invested in understanding what our software is actually doing – should they be and why? Is building a successful software… Read More »Observability Engineering and Customer Needs with Stephen Townsend

I talk to Jacob Lafors about his company, Verifa, as well as their approach to engagements around platform engineering, CI/CD and how he provides a… Read More »Continuous Delivery, Platforms as Product and Value Stream Mapping