Mirko Peters

Business → IT | IT → Business

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Business → IT | IT → Business A Consultant Podcast by Mirko Peters Business talks strategy. IT talks systems. Most failures happen in between. In Business → IT | IT → Business, Mirko Peters—consultant working on both sides of the table—translates what business means and what IT needs. No buzzwords, no vendor talk, no politics. Each episode untangles real-world problems where strategy, technology, people, and process collide. From digital transformation and architecture decisions to misaligned expectations and costly misunderstandings—this podcast shows how business decisions become IT reality...

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Mirko Peters

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Organizational APIs: Making Invisible Interfaces Explicit 07.02.2026 8:29

Teams don’t just hand off code or documents; they hand off expectations: who answers questions after launch, what ‘done’ means, how data is interpreted, and which escalation path to use. These invisible interfaces — meeting rituals, implicit data formats, timing assumptions, and informal ownership norms — behave like undocumented APIs that leak cost and slow decisions. In this episode Mirko Peters...

After the Launch: Who Really Owns the Problem? 05.02.2026 9:22

Too often 'we launched it' becomes shorthand for 'someone else will fix it later.' That gap between delivery and durable ownership creates operational drag: incidents sit unresolved, product changes stall, data quality erodes, and hidden costs compound. In this episode Mirko Peters examines the mismatch from both sides—why business treats features as product milestones while IT hears 'support it f...

Defaults Do the Work: How Implicit Choices Become Policy 04.02.2026 10:00

Organizations make thousands of quiet decisions every week: a config left as-is, a contract clause copied from a template, a deployment cadence nobody questioned. These implicit defaults end up governing behavior, locking in costs, and creating surprise constraints when business priorities change. In this episode Mirko Peters frames the problem from both sides: why business teams treat defaults as...

When KPIs Become Requirements: The Hidden Engineering Tax of Metrics 03.02.2026 8:44

Business metrics are meant to guide decisions, not dictate architecture — but they often do both. In this episode Mirko Peters walks listeners through the common, avoidable path where a headline KPI morphs into a brittle system requirement: dashboards spawn batch jobs, SLAs create unnecessary real-time coupling, and product vanity numbers drive feature work that multiplies operational load. Mirko...

When 'Just One More' Rewrites Strategy 02.02.2026 9:51

(00:00:00) Bridging the IT-Business Gap (00:00:43) The Hidden Costs of Small Changes (00:03:09) The Engineering Perspective on Scope Creep (00:04:47) The Decision Litmus Test (00:06:33) Practical Habits for Better Decision-Making (00:07:05) Implementing Decision Hygiene (00:08:33) Closing Thoughts and Call to Action (00:09:24) LinkedIn Follow and Review Request A single late-stage 'small' change —...