Loved this. One slide which says it all. Before anyone goes "serverless is the future" ... no, "serverless is the norm" - it's just that so many are yet to realise this. Give it time, another five years or so ->
At which point, between 2024 to 2029, we will be reaching the "Oh f&*k" stage of enterprise adoption of serverless and you won't be able to hire serverless developers because every other company will be scrambling to do the same.
X : What's the future then?
Me : The future is always about practices, the technology is the underlying cause. The practices you should be concerned about today are highlighted in green (the grey is what you should have been concerned about in 2011).
X : I thought you said capital flow would be important?
Me : It will but you can't model capital flow until you model your supply chain. Right now, very few understand their supply chain, fewer their software supply chain and connecting it to value is as rare as hens' teeth.
Howver, that said, things like capital flow are part of the awareness bucket ... we will get there, eventually. Some sooner than others.
X : Do you have data for that graph?
Me : The graphic? It originally was a joke but alas it is one which is painfully close to something that seems to be happening.
It's the same with this old graphic ... a joke from an observation which seems to have become painfully close to reality.
X : How do I know when you're joking?
Me : I mark it on the graphic. But ... even when I'm joking, the best jokes have a grain of truth to them i.e. they are built from observation. Which is why they make you sometimes wince and go "that's us".

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5 Jul
No surprises.

For reference, that particular image I made in 2012, not 2016 - blog.gardeviance.org/2012/07/magic-… ... however, that's splitting hairs on years, the point is still the same. Well done MSFT, a good win for Azure.
I called Open Stack a dead duck in 2012 because the people running it didn't know what they were doing. Sure, it made money but Telcos gambling huge amounts of shareholder money on a "no hope" cause because of executive decree and ego is normal, not a guide to the future.
The only people who seemed to play the game well with OpenStack was VMware ... they used it to buy years, if not a decade of time for their company.

Smart play.
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2 Jul
This is so fascinating but for all the wrong reasons ->
When you look at next generation behaviour then being influenced by something other than the executive circle is an encouraging sign, however the structure of the next generation is firmly towards remote work ... Image
i.e. the office is the last bastion of a centralised mentality and our communication mechanisms have changed to the point that such a mentality is no longer fit for the modern age ... still ...
Read 22 tweets
30 Jun
Finally ... finished my research report (well, at least the first draft for peer review) ... gosh, this has been a hard slog. Now playing catch up with everything I've missed.
X : What's the report on?
Me : The new behaviours that represent the future of organisations.
X : I though it was about technology?
Me : An enabler that is mostly secondary to the discussion.
X : Technology matters.
Me : Hmmm ....
... think about what makes a great football player. Behaviours or Technology i.e. can you buy a pair of football boots that will turn you into Ronaldo? That's part of the problem with IT, people keep thinking it's about technology ...
Read 6 tweets
25 Jun
X : What interesting emerging technology have you seen? Cloud?AI?
Me : None of that is emerging and the question is irrelevant. What you should be interested in is the emerging behaviours / practice. The technology just supports this.
X : Like DevOps.
Me : Not emerging. A given.
X : What is emerging then?
Me : This. A next generation of behaviours.
X : Hmmm, I don't agree.
Me : Hmmm, I don't care. I have a population study to counter your or my opinion.
X : Well, how do I do leaderless leadership?
Me : The whole field of distributed leadership is emerging. There is no guide yet, there are just companies experimenting in this space. You asked for emerging.
X : I should experiment?
Me : Depends.
Read 7 tweets
23 Jun
As someone who started on a council estate, living with grandparents, single mum working in another part of the country ... this ... 100% this ... youth services, grants, libraries, investment in schools etc made all the difference ->
Oh, and I ended up going to Cambridge but that was long ago. If I had been born in today's climate with the same start ... I doubt that would have happened. Nothing to do with people saying "white privilege", everything to do with destruction of the state and supporting systems.
Of course, if I hadn't gone to University, I'd never have come up with mapping which itself has saved this Gov £millions. I'd love to see a study on just how much austerity has actually cost us ... we'll never know of course but I suspect the answer is vastly more than it saved.
Read 5 tweets
19 Jun
X : You argue for sortition?
Me : A democratic system (with debates, majority voting, two representative houses) but representatives chosen by lottery not by election i.e. 4 people from each region, giving 2.600 MPs serving for 4 years with 1/4 replaced each year ...
... the problem we have is that elections do not create a representative parliament, there are lots of barriers to becoming an MP etc. We have 90k people in my district and our MP is Damian Collins ... as far as I can tell, random selection would on average find someone better.
So, 4 people selected at random from each district, each serving for four years with 1/4 replaced each year ... I can't see how you wouldn't end up with a better quality of candidates in the houses of parliament and a more effective government.
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