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Adapting Software: A Case for Generalists
Colourized Photo of Charles Darwin Developing and improving software or IT services is challenging. With change the only constant and competition fierce, organizations often live and die by their...
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IBM zDay
IBM zSystems Hardware Tomorrow, on 15 September 2022, IBM is hosting a free, virtual, one-day conference called IBM zDay. It covers audiences from students to traditional mainframe operators and...
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Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Unpacking Professional Opinions
Fueled by the advent of social media, opinions now surround us. Seemingly everyone has them and broadcasts them to the broader world. Untethered from context and expertise, such expression usually...
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Twitter will never outsource its algorithm
Elon Musk sparked controversy with this recent attempt to take over Twitter. Many support him, citing Twitter’s relatively poor revenue and Musk’s success in turning seemingly unprofitable ventures,...
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If it were easy, we would not need good IT architects
It is hard not to find advice on being a great IT architect. Beyond modelling and technical details, good advice includes effective persuasion, people skills and persistence. However, the need for...
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The Power of Alternatives
For most of us, smartphones replaced paper maps long ago. You enter your destination, and it presents you with multiple potential routes. Given one route is often fastest, why bother? The smartphone...
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The Problem with Agile Transformations
It seems every organization wants to transform itself to become more agile. They want to respond to opportunities quickly and cost-effectively. They want to adapt faster than their competition in the...
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Who moved my toast?
A few weeks ago, my wife was cleaning the kitchen. She unplugged the toaster that I use every morning, cleaned the bench then plugged it back in. Unfortunately, she plugged it into the left power...
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Information security meets scaled Agile
Australian Cyber Security Magazine published an article of mine titled “Information Security meets scaled Agile”, describing how large scale Agile processes work and how Information Security can best...
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Architecture as Persuasion
You have just presented your architecture to management. You slaved over every technical detail, followed all the standard templates and convinced all the technical leads. Every “i” is dotted and “t”...
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The best and worst thing about being an architect
Many things about IT architecture simultaneously attract and repulse people. Architects are technical decision makers but often leave the implementation to others. They translate between the business...
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Talking Non-Tech
IT architects often pride themselves on their technical knowledge. Tasked with designing a system from end-to-end and taking responsibility for that design, they need to ensure the details are right....
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Toppling alpha developers
Many people are attracted to software development because they love technology and development. Viewing it more as a hobby they are paid to undertake, they gladly spend time outside work solving that...
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Requirements and leadership, not design, are the keys to architecture
Many IT engineers aspire to be architects. They want to dictate the course of their products or services, leading their fellow engineers. To do so, they focus on designing the best and largest...
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Theresa May vs Encryption vs Solutions
Theresa May’s speech in response to the recent terrorist attacks in London have, once again, mentioned cracking down on cyberspace “to prevent terrorist and extremist planning” and “this ideology the...
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Floundering in Alphabet Soup Part I
The IT industry is swamped by certifications. Every conceivable three-, four- or five-letter acronym seems to mean something. However, everyone can recount a story of someone certified but clueless. In...
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Rebranding Corporate Politics
The term “corporate politics” conjures up images of sycophantic, self-serving behavior like boot-licking and backstabbing. However, to some IT professionals’ chagrin, we work with humans as much as...
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InfoSec: Not just for hackers
I recently read Troy Hunt’s blog post on careers in information security. Troy makes good points about information security as a potential career and the benefits of certifications like the Certified...
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Systems > Goals
It is the time of year when people evaluate their previous year’s goals and plan for the next. It is the time when New Year’s resolutions are made. It is also the time where people lament ones they...
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The Potential of Cosmos: Containers
Cosmos is an operating system construction kit in development since 2006. At first glance, it appeals to the “Internet of Things” (IoT) crowd. One could control home automation or run a Raspberry Pi...
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