Here’s why enterprise IT is so complex
Enterprise IT is routinely plagued by excessive complexity. It’s almost like it’s subject to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which concludes that the entropy in a system can never decrease.
Real-life IT Transformation
Real life writes the best stories. This blog documents my observations from riding the architect elevator up and down Enterprise IT.
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Architecture
The Machine Governator shows no mercy
For governance to remain effective in a high-velocity environment, it needs to be automated. Surprisingly, it also produces more reliable results.
Architecture: Selling Options
How do you explain the value of architecture to business stakeholders? Deferring to the Nobel-prize winning economists Black and Scholes can work surprisingly well.
Strategy
Don’t make your customers play Takeshi’s Castle
When buying a software or hardware product for your enterprise, the future product roadmap is as much a consideration as the current product state. However, this is where some vendors play games with their customers.
Don’t Outsource Thinking
Enterprise IT generally follows a “buy over build” strategy because in most cases it yields lower risk and better economics than doing it yourself. But there are a few things that you should keep to yourself.
Transformation
Reversing the disablement cycle
Everyone does the right thing, yet nothing much gets done. How to break self-reinforcing bad habits.
Cloud
Why run software you didn’t build?
A lot of modern cloud technology leverages containers. However, a non-trivial portion of enterprise applications don’t run easily in containers. The answer to this conundrum lies in taking a step back and asking a more fundamental questi...