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There is no more "keeping the lights on"

Several years ago I came across a presentation by an Architect at IBM named Simon Grieg. It was a presentation that I found when I was...

Why Cloud Projects Fail

I talk to teams on a daily basis that explain to me that their solution is different. The normal rules don't apply to them because they...

The Search for Broken Feedback Loops

Digital transformation is only partly about technology and in many very real ways technology is the easy part. The real crux of...

Time to Think

Last week I went to the office for the first time in more than 2 years. I had to wear shoes. I lived through it though, and coming out...

The power of testing your understanding.

I've been waging war against technical debt for the better part of two decades. I've watched good teams drown slowly beneath waves of...

Episode One: Why Mainframes?...

I have spent the last 20 years absorbed by computers, computing, and software and I like to think that I have a broad range of skills and...

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