In May 2019, I gave a talk at GlueCon, “Can We Trade Derivatives of Technical Debt?” The purpose of the talk wasn’t to answer the question literally. It was a way to rethink the tech debt analogy, where it’s gotten stuck, and where we can re-frame the analogy to have…
For better or for worse, I’ve become an abstract-writing machine over the years. Whether it’s from writing my own abstracts for conference CFPs, or ghost-writing webinar abstracts for others, I’ve drafted a lot of abstracts. I’ve settled into a bit of a formula.
No one likes to admit they like…
More evidence for the Secrets of Successful Cloud Foundry Adopters
Call it confirmation bias (it is), but at SpringOne Platform I couldn’t help but notice new examples of “The Secrets.” This growing list of “secrets” are patterns across companies digitally transforming using PCF. They surface as I listen to Pivotal’s customers describing their journeys, but they transcend vendor. …
Dealing with unfortunate things shape a culture.
UPDATE: You can now watch a talk version of this article from Monktoberfest 2018. See link at the end.
There are certain universal human experiences that transcend cultures. The birth of a child. The coupling of two people in marriage. And death. …
Takeaways from SpringOne Platform 2017
Day 2 at SpringOne platform was a whirlwind of keynotes and more user-led breakouts than one can physically attend. I’m always on the look out for patterns in how users are adopting technologies. This time, I looked for the behaviors to avoid: the anti-patterns.
Anti-pattern #1: Assemble “The Avengers” of a Team
When the rubber meets the road…
Takeaways from Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017
1100 deploys a month. 50% improvement in time to market. Same day bug fixes with no downtime. 1500 production services. MVP prototypes in four weeks. The measured effects of using Cloud Foundry (and associated people and process changes) are compelling.
But how did they get there? After all, change is…
How data can help your customers take actions based on insights
Every week in our briefing center, we talk to companies about unlocking the potential of their data, and the same question crops up. I often find some version of it in the pre-brief document I get as a regular speaker for these data overview sessions. …
The gloves came off this week. At Gartner’s Catalyst conference in San Diego the message in the big data track was loud and clear: go to the cloud *now*. From Carlie Idoine’s session, “From Data to Insight to Action: Building a Modern End-to-End Data Architecture”, to Svetlana Sicular’s “Implementing Data…
As a history major at UCLA, I often faced the question, “so, what are you going to do after college? Teach?” Just as Daniel Schmidt wasn’t thinking about his career when he chose a philosophy major, I wasn’t picking my major as a future job description. I was…
