Gartner’s annual overview of technology trends for the year ahead is always worth a read.…
Real-life journeys to operational maturity
A few weeks ago, we blogged about the importance of tech scale-ups focusing on the…
Cloud migration, technical debt and more: our most-read blogs of 2020
Events of 2020 accelerated the cloud adoption and digital transformation strategies of many businesses. So,…
Fulfilling the Digital Prophecy: five things 2020 taught us
It turns out that 2020 was the year digital evangelists had prophesied. Formerly bustling high…
The top 5 blockers of a Cloud Migration
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Your holiday reading sorted: book recommendations from DevOpsGroup
It’s no secret that 2021 will bring new challenges for organisations of all sectors, sizes…
DevOps – The next 5 years
Recently I was asked the question on LinkedIn: “Where will DevOps be in 5 years’ …
Microsoft’s Enterprise DevOps Report 2020-21: an inside look
Microsoft recently published its first annual Enterprise DevOps Report. As one of the co-authors,…
The Top 5 Benefits of Managed Cloud
Why use a 3rd party cloud managed services provider (“Cloud MSP”) to help you manage your cloud…
What is event-driven automation and why do you need it?
The A in the CALMS model of DevOps stands for Automation. Automation is the key…
The #1 DevOps transformation mistake organisations are making
In the 7.5 years we’ve been working in DevOps what’s the #1 DevOps Transformation mistake…
Address these four technical debts to help your scale-up soar
Learning to make long-term decisions is perhaps the hardest part of the tech scale-up journey.…
The start-up Valley of Death: what it is and how to power through it
It’s a well-known fact that most start-ups fail. What’s less well-known is that most tech…
So, you’re doing DevOps. But what about self-service?
The big question for any tech scale-up is how to grow revenue without a parallel…
Cloud managed services: find a partner, not a provider
Getting the most from your investment in cloud-based systems requires a deep and dynamic understanding…
The technical debt quadrant
Is technical debt ALWAYS bad? It’s a question we’ve touched on a lot in earlier …
Challenges you’ll face as a scale-up CTO, and how to overcome them
Crossing the chasm from start-up to scale-up is exhilarating. But don’t expect it to be…
Why digital transformation needs psychological safety
Psychological safety is a hot topic in IT circles. It has an important role to…
5 ways product-centric IT improves value delivery in a chaotic world
Enterprise organisations traditionally favour the project-led corporate IT model. With logical and structured processes, it…
Three reasons to perform a Well-Architected Review now, not later
Have challenges posed by Covid-19 accelerated your cloud adoption strategy? If so, now is a good time…