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

It’s 2023 and just like any year, your timeline is awash with good intentions and lists of things that you can do this year. You… Read More »QUEST: Do We Still Need Agile in 2023?