by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 24, 2019 | Strategy, Systems
Reading time: 3.5 minutes Are there any ‘silver bullets’ in software development? Fred Brooks led the IBM’s System/360 development effort and recounted that delivery story and strategies in The Mythical Man-Month (brilliant) said: “There is no... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 19, 2019 | DevOps, Secrets, Security, Strategy
Thar be Dragons in Application Secret Delivery Processes I am pleased to share the 2019 State of Application Secret Delivery and Audit Practices report with you. As you may recall, I have been investigating DevOps Practitioners’ processes for delivering secrets to... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 10, 2019 | DevOps, Strategy
Reading Time: 2 minutes Was Digital Transformation a good idea? Many organizations are making fundamental changes to the way their applications are structured and operated. These changes are intended to address real problems. Structurally, monolithic applications can... by Stephen Kuenzli | Jun 14, 2019 | Strategy
Build, Buy, Outsource by Mike Lamb, iluli You probably just spent a week working on something and it’s time for a bit of reflection and improvement. How about checking-up on your strategy? Mike Lamb (iluli) has published a terrific, 6-minute video introduction... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | May 23, 2019 | Strategy
I’d like to point out an important thing about Architecture Decisions Records (ADR). An ADR records a decision and the context it was made in. A decision record should not be used to try and capture all of the information relevant to an architecture or design... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | May 21, 2019 | Strategy, Systems
People in Conversation, Alexis Brown Reading Time: 2 minutes Comcast published a detailed description of how they use Architecture ‘Guilds’ to scale investigation, review, and decision making: https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-guild-800-friends... 