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Business Agility needs leaders to put people first
As we’ve mentioned in a previous article, business agility can create a culture that increases retention and morale. While business...
Peter Maddison
Aug 3, 20222 min read


Where is DevOps Heading? 3 Trends to Watch
Ever since John Allspaw’s “10+ Deploys a Day” and Patrick Debois coining of the term “DevOps” in 2008, DevOps has been transforming...
Peter Maddison
Jun 26, 20214 min read


Directing Flow
Introducing organizational change is a tricky business, especially when it involves new technology. Even seemingly innocuous changes to...
Peter Maddison
Jan 5, 20216 min read


Automating Governance
Governance is something of a dirty word. It often generates a visceral reaction in people, conjuring up images of red tape, bureaucracy...
Peter Maddison
Nov 30, 202011 min read


Do I need a platform team?
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Most transformations do not deliver upon their intended results. Many of these transformations...
Peter Maddison
Apr 27, 20204 min read


Securing the value chain
Whether we are working from home or our offices, the challenge of ensuring the secure delivery of business value to our customers is a...
Peter Maddison
Apr 6, 20204 min read


Identifying the bottleneck
Often when we first engage with organizations, we find they enter the conversation with a clear idea of what their problems are....
Peter Maddison
Mar 2, 20203 min read


Continuous improvement of work and psychological safety
Following on from my blog post covering the first two ideals from the Unicorn Project here, I’d like to continue discussing the next two...
Peter Maddison
Feb 24, 20203 min read


Minimum Viable Bureaucracy
As we introduce technology into our organizations and transform the way they deliver value, bureaucracy is often cited as a common...
Peter Maddison
Feb 3, 20203 min read


Application Modernization and Complexity Debt
Today I want to talk about a common digital transformation topic I get asked about, application modernization. More specifically, how...
Peter Maddison
Jan 27, 20205 min read


Locality, Simplicity and Flow
The Unicorn Project from IT Revolution, brings together a number of interesting ideas. In the coming weeks, we are setting up a series of...
Peter Maddison
Jan 20, 20203 min read


Understanding DevOps
When it comes down to defining DevOps, the industry itself is guilty of muddying the waters, grabbing every opportunity to turn the...

Gino Marckx
Jan 18, 20192 min read


Satisfying controls at speed
In a world of on-demand capacity and rapid delivery of small incremental pieces of value into production, heavily regulated organizations...
Peter Maddison
Nov 27, 20182 min read
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