Reading Time: 28 minutes Dave is a member of the Wardley Maps community. At their recent session they were joined by Mike Baxter to look at Strategy Mapping. As Mike points out, “Strategy is hard, complex to manage and frequently under-delivers. It requires both innovation and agility whilst coordinating, aligning and prioritising multiple streams
Reading Time: 3 minutes The terms Cloud-based and Cloud-Native sound similar when you are developing for the cloud right? Wrong. Chris Skinner (aka The Finanser) put out a great piece on what is happening right across many industries – not just banking. I am having a debate on a regular basis about being cloud-native
Reading Time: 26 minutes Mik Kersten from Project To Product talks serverless first with Dave covering: Liberty Mutual’s journey into a serverless first world A customer over cost-centric approach to cloud Removing “undifferentiated heavy lifting” from the work environment Creating “two-way door” architecture for flexibility and flow Using “lego blocks” to help engineers build
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s a fantastic article posted on medium by the BBC Digital Products Head of Architecture, Matthew Clark showing the serverless profile at BBC Online. I enjoyed reading it as I can identify with the approach that the BBC team took and many of the challenges they encountered. It is a
Reading Time: 3 minutes Technology in business – the first encounter Many moons ago, I remember sitting in the prefab building that housed the Computer Lab in University College Dublin (UCD). We were required to go there to complete practicals for our 2nd year subject: ‘Computer Applications’. As Business and Legal future high flying
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Reaching Cloud Velocity : A leader’s guide to success in AWS Cloud” by Jonathan Allen and Thomas Blood captures guidance, advice and hard won wisdom in a really concise and digestible way that all leaders on a cloud journey should embrace. The action steps at the end of each chapter
