The same rules apply whether you’re a startup, a scale-up, a corporate, an individual, an open source project contributor. You’re part of your own support problem.
This time I discuss what it’s like to be a coder who wants to have it all – the good times and the bad times – but wants to limit the bad times to working hours only. I hope you enjoy it as much as I made recording it.
Every week, we explore different aspects of the business of delivering software into production. Talking to industry experts about how they get to keep their production software running, whether you build or buy, how they cope with new features and product changes, how they keep their customers satisfied while also keeping themselves and their engineers happy, what tools like they like and which ones they don’t as well as tales from the front line when it comes to delivering and supporting production grade software.
How do we manage change? Assessing urgency and what does it mean when no-one is owning a (technical) systems problem? I talk about this common… Read More »Thinking in Systems & Change Management
EPISODE SUMMARY This week I talk about how to position your business through better systems. How to understand how important you are at the core… Read More »Positioning Your Business Through Better Systems
EPISODE SUMMARY When you first get a taste for working in a company you think you can change the world. Eventually you realise that the… Read More »Systems are a Sales Opportunity (or Having The Systems Conversation)
EPISODE SUMMARY What do Finance Directors (FDs) have to do with successful projects in organisations of all sizes? They control the purse strings, but they… Read More »How Finance Directors Drive Strategy Through Systems
EPISODE SUMMARY This week I’m talking drawing with Ingrid Lill. Ingrid is a Brand Strategist with a Pencil who use Visual Thinking techniques to help… Read More »Interview with Ingrid Lill – Brand Consultant with a Pencil
EPISODE SUMMARY This episode is all about drawing pictures. Visualise your systems, the inability to visualise your systems and also how to map your business using… Read More »System Mapping & Drawing Happy Pictures
EPISODE SUMMARY We depend on systems in our life, in our business. Sometimes we don’t even know that they exist. This week I’m talking about… Read More »The Systems We Don’t See (and ones you’ve never heard of)
EPISODE SUMMARY When it comes to our jobs or our companies we have some tasks that we have to do and some tasks that we… Read More »Who is responsible? (or the Machinery of Business)