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Photo by Immo Wegmann  on Unsplash Several years ago I wrote an article about there no longer being a role for support teams who are just...

Photo by Andrea Tummons  on Unsplash Recently I had a life changing moment. I was having lunch with a friend and he told me that he...

Photo by Trnava University  on Unsplash I know a lot of companies and teams do an excellent job of Agile development at Enterprise scale....

Several years ago I came across a presentation by an Architect at IBM named Simon Grieg. It was a presentation that I found when I was...

I talk to teams on a daily basis that explain to me that their solution is different. The normal rules don't apply to them because they...

Digital transformation is only partly about technology and in many very real ways technology is the easy part. The real crux of...

I spend a large amount of time working with teams that are struggling to manage the increase in solution complexity that is affecting all...

Last week I went to the office for the first time in more than 2 years. I had to wear shoes. I lived through it though, and coming out...

I've been waging war against technical debt for the better part of two decades. I've watched good teams drown slowly beneath waves of...

Over the past year of lock downs and home schooling, of changing roles at work and at home, I have spent a lot of time thinking about...

If you started this journey with me in "Episode One" you will have read about mainframe computers being fast, resilient, secure and...

I have spent the last 20 years absorbed by computers, computing, and software and I like to think that I have a broad range of skills and...