The IT Skeptic - renaissance

The work Renaissance

skeptic — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 10:05:50 +0000

As everybody is surely aware by now, big things are afoot in how we think about work and management. Agile has spilled out of IT into the enterprise. Complex systems theory is finally shifting how we think. Safety culture is revealing the value in failure. Less widely known (yet), Open culture is flipping the hierarchy.

New Ways of Working: Agile, Devops; do you get it?

skeptic — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 02:33:05 +0000

Nothing is new and everything is new.
There is a change sweeping through our industry the like of which we have never seen before. Do you get it?

If you're treating your colleagues and clients as empowered adults who know more than you do about how to do the work...

The IT Renaissance

skeptic — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 23:05:32 +0000

A while ago I used the phrase "the IT Renaissance" to capture the sea change I felt in our industry. But the idea has languished buried in another post, so I felt it is time to bring it forward as a blog post of its own. We are going through an IT Renaissance, the like of which we have never seen before in our industry.

How DevOps messes with your head

skeptic — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:39:22 +0000

[I'm updating this list.
See this Twitter thread #dmwyh for new examples and discussion https://twitter.com/hashtag/dmwyh
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