With all the buzz around the ChatGPTs (3 and 4) and the latest announcements from GitHub Copilot X we couldn’t but wonder what will be the impact of AI-powered tools on the profession of Software Engineering which up until now seemed to be immune to existential threats. In this post…

The term “Cloud Migration” is becoming as popular and topical as “Digital Transformation” Migrating to the cloud is the process of moving all digital business operations there. It includes the transfer of data, applications and IT processes from certain data centres to other (cloud-based) data centres. Cloud migration requires a…

Artificial Intelligence is impacting our lives for good, so we need to take a closer look — In his book “21 lessons for the 21st Century”, historian Yuval Harari notes that “Already today, ‘truth’ is defined by the top results of the Google search.”. In a different vein, an academic, Professor Nicholas Diakopoulos suggests in his research work that authority is becoming increasingly algorithmic. Last week, journalist…

Human rights defenders across the world are fighting facial recognition surveillance Researchers Find Racial Bias in Hospital Algorithm Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe Google using dubious tactics to target people with ‘darker skin’ in facial recognition project: sources It’s time we faced up to AI’s…

During the last months, I spent (quality) time with people of diverse backgrounds and roles; from executives in the banking sector, founders of health or tech startups and translators to name a few, discussing the impact of technology and algorithmic decision making on their daily work. …

… so make sure software developers are part of it — It was late 90s, the era of .coms and “e-everything” and yours truly was a Computer Science student admiring a bunch of nerdy guys who were creating cool stuff like a web-browser (Netscape in particular) or an electronic (not digital, it wasn’t a cool term at that time) bookstore (Amazon…

For the last 14 years I have been conducting research and then practicising consultancy on software quality matters. I was merely trying to find answers to questions like: What defines good software? How can we measure it? How can we make its technical quality transparent? …

One of the most memorable speeches I remember, was delivered some years ago by the Group CIO of a bank. It was just before the term Digital Transformation made its appearance, and I remember it for two reasons: This guy was talking for 20 minutes straight, without using any…

I do read a lot of articles (mainly hymns I must say) on Digital Transformation and Strategy. …