We discuss compensation, particularly how people in the IT department ("developers," etc.) are so disconnected from the actual business that compensating them based on business performance is near impossible. Not good if you're an IT person and

Episode 3: Improvement requires fear, or, digital transformation by crisis and fear

Jul 6th, 2020 38m 38s

People in large organizations avoid improving for improving's sake. They're very rarely proactive in transforming. Instead, it seems that management in most large organizations only act, and change, when they fear competition and failure. "Ever

Episode 2: Outsourcing, SIs, and other "others"

Oct 31st, 2019 58m 1s

We discuss outsourcing IT.

Episode 1: Who forget to invite "The Business," to this kubernetes PoC?

Sep 11th, 2019 44m 21s

Journey Through the Business Bottleneck, part 1.Join Rick and I as we try to find this elusive thing called "The Business." We lay out a theory we've been talking about: while IT has been improving or, at least, can improve, the business side

Monolithic Transformation

Sep 9th, 2019 1h 32m

Large organization are desperate to become “tech companies.” They drool at these tech companies ability to grow and change quickly. Despite mastering agile over the past 20 years, IT as a whole is too slow and unreliable. “It’s the culture,” ev

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