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Send us Fan Mail We are just back from The Value Flywheel Effect book launch at DevOps Enterprise Summit organised by IT Revolution with Gene Kim and crew.  Learning Sprint  The first thing I did was a learning sprint. I did an hour on creating a cloud strategy with Wardley mapping, which I thought was interesting. I used Ben Mosior's Wardley map canvas from LearnWardleyMaps.com. And it was g...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about a big DevOps Conference. And the first book signing of our new book, The Value Flywheel Effect . It's at the DevOps Enterprise Summit on October 18-20 with IT Revolution who also published our book. It's the first live event in three years. DevOps Enterprise Summit is the leading community for driving change in technology.  It's scary and...

Send us Fan Mail This week we look at 'What is Value Engineering?' with BMK Lakshminarayanan from DevOps New Zealand. BMK is based out of Wellington, New Zealand working as Transformation Architect and Independent Consultant for Section Six.  He also worked for 15 years with Bank of New Zealand.  As part of that work he connected and became a central part of the DevOps community.  BMK us...

Send us Fan Mail Grady Booch is a fantastic software architect who has done a lot of pioneering software engineering. One of his latest messages says that it's a good thing that AWS, Azure and Google are offering guidance on building with well architected. But he also warns that when cloud providers talk to you about well architected, it comes with a bias towards their products. There is an i...

Send us Fan Mail What is the Second Cloud Transformation? In this episode we are talking about the second cloud transformation. A lot of people are talking about what happens when you get to the cloud? You have already moved to the cloud. But you are not achieving the cloud successes like being event driven or serverless. It can be a surprise for organisations that work in traditional ways. Their...

Send us Fan Mail We are talking about Event Driven Architecture examples today. There was an event in London a few weeks ago, called EDA Day. It was organised by GOTO with a lot of AWS contributors. It was neat because it was one day focused on event driven architectures. It showed the coming together of a 15 to 20 year old pattern of EDA, plus serverless. And all the bigger services on top of tha...

Send us Fan Mail AWS Serverless Services with Paul Swail from Serverless First In this episode the team talk about AWS Serverless Services with Paul Swail. Paul is an independent Serverless Consultant helping teams get started with serverless on AWS. The Value Flywheel Effect Book Review Paul also reviewed our book The Value Flywheel Effect. The team talk about his views of the book. And the fact...

Send us Fan Mail What is Long Term Value? We've spent the last couple of episodes talking about the value flywheel effect and the value flywheel itself. There are four phases: Clarity of Purpose, Challenge, Next Best Action and Long Term Value. We've been talking through each of these phases in detail. And today, we're going to talk about phase four, which is Long Term Value. So the...

Send us Fan Mail We've been going through the Value Flywheel Effect in the last few episodes. And talking about the different phases. The Value Flywheel is the core mechanism we talk about in our book. There are four phases. The first is Clarity of Purpose, then we have Challenge , Next Best Action and Long Term Value . Today we're talking about Next Best Action . When you boil it right...

Send us Fan Mail It's important that engineers challenge tech strategy. Challenge is about the environment. When you decide on a strategy, do you have the right environment to challenge it?  In the last episode, we talked about Phase 1 of The Value Flywheel Effect: Clarity of Purpose and setting direction.  The Value Flywheel Effect is our book which is available for preorder. Part of bringin...

Send us Fan Mail We are looking at how to apply flywheel strategy from our book 'The Value Flywheel Effect, which will be published on 29 November. In the last episode we spoke about the whole model and the four phases. They are Clarity of Purpose, Challenge and Landscape, Next Best Action and Long Term Value. This time we figured we'd deep dive into Clarity of Purpose. It's the fir...

Send us Fan Mail Our book 'The Value Flywheel Effect' is being published by IT Revolution Press on 29 November. We thought it might be worth having a chat about what the the value flywheel is. Things really start to work well, when you join the business and technology strategy. We came up with this model to describe how you do that in a company. There are four phases. Phase one is '...

Send us Fan Mail Clarity of Purpose with the North Star Framework  For many teams, trying to figure out why you're building what you're building is a good question to ask. I have found out in my career that most teams don't really understand why they're building what they are building. It's interesting to look at the models for creating great software, like The British Des...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we decided we'd have a chat about the 8 principles or tenets for a high performance serverless first team. 1. 'Chase a business outcome or a KPI' A team should know what business KPI they're working towards. You should be able to tap a person on the shoulder and have them tell you what they're working on. And what business impact the work they'...

Send us Fan Mail We found out that 'how to start cloud computing' is a burning issue from our meetup BelfAWSt. And it is a community Meetup in Belfast, to talk about all things AWS!  How do you set up your account?  And how do you learn?  Or build your career?  Who do you reach out to?  And when you are more familiar with the basics, what can you leverage to build higher order systems an...

Send us Fan Mail We have picked out our top books that have influenced us and our 'The Flywheel Effect' book. 1. 'Continuous Delivery' came out in 2011. And it has been massively influential in how high performing teams deliver their software today.  It is still as fresh as it was when it was written. 2. 'Domain Driven Design' describes good domain models and the impo...

Send us Fan Mail This is the sixth and final piece of our Modern Cloud series. Modern Cloud has to represent value for the different personas across the business. The customer is an obvious one. But it's good to talk about internal stakeholders.  The CEO and Product personas are very interesting. I think we were happy talking about the Developer and CTO/Architect perspectives. They are our pe...

Send us Fan Mail We are continuing our series on the modern cloud. During our six part series, we've covered an ‘’Introduction to Modern Cloud’, and talked about the CEO, Product and Developer perspectives. Today, we're talking about the technical leader or CTO perspective, which is linked to long term value. As CTO, you need to be on top of this because you own the rationale behind the...

Send us Fan Mail We're continuing our conversation on Modern Cloud. There are a couple of previous episodes: an overview of the CEO's perspective and an overview of Product's perspective. I figured we would look at the Developer perspective today. Sometimes when you meet with developers, you don't know what's working or not. By mapping out the tech stack, it's easy to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our conversation on Digital Product Leaders and the Modern Cloud. First of all, the good news is that our book has been announced: The Flywheel Effect. Let's just get that in there first!  But let's continue our discussion on the modern cloud. We've talked about what the modern cloud is from the perspective of the CEO. What about from the perspective of a...

Send us Fan Mail We're continuing our series on Modern Cloud looking at the Modern CEO. What does a CEO expect from Modern Cloud? They want capability from your engineering or IT organisation. They also want speed. And flexibility. I don't think they care about Lambdas or Kubernetes! It's good way to really frustrate your CEO if you tell him all about Kubernetes and Lambdas. As a CE...

Send us Fan Mail Many people are asking: 'What does modern cloud, modern application or modern architecture actually mean?' It's hard to explain what it means without thinking about legacy cloud. Gregor Hohpe has a great description.  He says; 'If you lift and shift to AWS (or any of the cloud providers), and don't modernise your architecture, all you've got is a fanc...

Send us Fan Mail Over the last six episodes, we have gone over the well architected framework from AWS. As a recap, we think this is a fantastic framework. It's about your workloads. Like a physical building, if the foundation is not solid, it may cause structural problems that undermine the integrity and function of the building. So you need to look at all six pillars for your workloads. And...

Send us Fan Mail We're continuing our conversation on the well architected pillars looking at what is our favourite pillar. Today we're talking about sustainability.  There's a list of best practices that are broken down into sections: Region Selection, User Behaviour Patterns, Software and Architecture Patterns, Data Patterns, Hardware Patterns, and Development and Deployment Proce...

Send us Fan Mail We're continuing our talks on Well Architected with the fifth pillar which is AWS cost optimization. There are 10 questions and 5 subsections:  Practice Cloud Financial Management,  Expenditure Awareness,  Cost Effective Resources,  Matching Supply and Demand, and  Optimising Over Time .  Practice Cloud Financial Management is a maturity step for teams to be able to know how...