Maturity models make complex things appear simple, but we need to acknowledge the circumstances behind them being imposed on so many organizations. There’s a certain appeal to maturity models. They take a lot of complexity and arrange it neatly into...

We can have stronger data isolation without the drawbacks of earlier forms of dedicated infrastructure. Multi-tenanted software arrived alongside agile software development, Software as a Service SaaS and cloud computing. To understand modern multi-...

The search for an enterprise DevOps platform is on, but there are signs that these platforms will fail to outperform a DevOps toolchain that combines best-in-class tools. Platform engineering is likely to further widen the gap between platforms and t...

In 1988, sociologist Ron Westrum created a typology of organizational culture and published his findings in a 2004 health industry paperhttps://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/qhc/13/suppl2/ii22.full.pdf. Westrum’s classification system has become one ...