The long way towards resilience - Part 1
What is resilience?
In its core, this post series will discuss three questions:
(Un)coupling in distributed systems - Part 1
Projects considered harmful - Part 2
Exploding complexity, death of motivation and organizational bankruptcy
In the previous post, we discussed how the broken feedback loops that software development projects create lead to a continuously deteriorating IT system landscape, resulting in an ever-shrinking dependability – which is probably the by far most important runtime property of software.
Projects considered harmful - Part 1
The problem with broken feedback loops
What is a project?
Responsible IT - Part 2
Responding from first principles
In the previous post, we discussed the biggest challenges, IT organizations face these days. We have seen four big challenges, each with its own peculiarities:
Responsible IT - Part 1
Drivers for rethinking IT
Lately, I attended an IT decision maker conference. A few hundred CIOs and other IT decision makers under a single roof. When looking at the conference schedule, you found the usual suspects:
