O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid."

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This can become delicate when the mindsets of each teams are optimising for different things, most commonly speed vs reliability. The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Ideally, all of our teams would be delivering at maximum speed and would all be heading in the same direction, highly-aligned with business goals. Unfortunately, we need to balance speed and alignment, and how we make this trade-off is not clear because not all alignment has the same cost. Aligned Autonomy ?

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Speed Innovation Transportation 40

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. The organization needs to innovate faster to become more competitive. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

Architecture 98

Architecture Metrics Logistics Strategy 98

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It used a proprietary hardware architecture incompatible with its predecessor PC products, and a new operating system (OS/2) that was only partially compatible with DOS, a product strategy not too dissimilar to what IBM did in the 1960s with the System/360 mainframe. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today.

Hardware 52

Hardware Social Media Media Strategy 52

Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

Systems 40

Systems Social Media Design Media 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. While some noticeable progress was made, it was challenging to implement significant changes just for the sake of speed. Creating A Performance Culture.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126