When Should Scrum Be Used?
In this blog post I discuss if Scrum is the right approach for a project or is it better to use another Agile alternative? I will cover when is Scrum the best option, how to find out if Scrum is the best option, and what is another alternative. Scrum offers a powerful way to develop […]
Improving Collaboration With Wider Stakeholders Using SCRUM
In this blog post, I will discuss my ideas on a method for improving collaboration with key stakeholders that are outside of the development and SCRUM team, but influence the project and play critical roles in its success. As important as continuously improving collaboration with the Scrum team is, it is usually not enough to […]
Building Better Technology Platforms
Technology platforms are incredibly powerful systems that can help reduce technology costs, grow a product portfolio and create new revenue streams, if implemented correctly. But successfully using them can be difficult and can lead to increased resource costs, technical debt and product upgrade bottlenecks. In this article I will share my views in how to […]
Installation and Configuration Manual for Your Own, Secured & Encrypted Personal Cloud Storage Using NextCloud
This instruction manual covers the setting up of a private cloud storage, similar in features as OneDrive and Google Drive, using the NextCloud platform. This cloud storage will be self-hosted – running on your own servers – and secured using encryption. Thus, you will have full control and sole admin access to your private data. […]
Programming Fundamentals: Functional Decomposition
Functional decomposition is a rather grandiose and pretentious term for breaking the problem down into smaller more easily solved problems. In this article I’d like to cover how spending time doing this, if needed twice (once after the initial requirements acceptance, and then again at the time of feature design) has benefits. Sometimes, in order […]
Programming Fundamentals: Unnecessary Conditionals and Annotation
Many moons ago, when I was working as part of a team creating our own Linux kernel distros for general availability across the organisation to be used for internally developed software (this was a thing before containerisation and microservices!), I came across code in an old function that I was tasked to patch that was […]
Building a Website Environment – How to Build a Web Server
In this tutorial we will look at how to build a web server. We will build upon what was covered in my series on what goes on Inside the Cloud, and build ourselves an environment to run a website. This tutorial will cover a single server setup running the entire environment, however in later blog […]
Designing a Scalable, Highly Resilient & Self-Healing Cloud Infrastructure Architecture
In the Inside the Cloud Series, we looked at the individual components of the cloud in more detail. In this article, we will build on that and put all those components together and see how they combine to create a scalable, highly resilient self-healing Cloud. Summary / TL;DR A user connects to our DNS servers […]
Improving Business Change Management
Technology driven business change plays a vital role in the digital age enabling innovation and growth. It’s therefore not surprising that more and more companies are changing their business through adopting new technology, technology strategies, methodologies and operating models. Indeed, some business are establishing permanent change management functions — including retailers, publishers, and banks that […]
Firewalls
In this article, another in our series of looking inside the Cloud, we will be looking more closely at Firewalls – their purpose and how they work. A firewall is combination of hardware and software that monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic and permits or blocks that traffic (specifically called data packets) based on a […]