Digital Transformation
Most digital transformations succeed at the technology and fail at the business. Here's where I look at what actually moves a programme — the operating model, the funding, the decisions you can't delegate — and why the platform choices are usually the easy part.
16 items, 2021 to 2026.
Frameworks
- AI Platform Operating Model AI does not replace platform engineering. It expands the platform’s job from delivery pipelines to model access, data context, evaluation and agent governance.
- Team Topology Decisions Team design is an architectural act, not an HR one. The four team types and three interaction modes from Team Topologies — plus the decision layer: when each shape fits, and what breaks when it does not.
- Technical Debt Prioritisation Not all debt is worth repaying, and the messiest code is rarely the most expensive. A prioritisation framework built on interest rate, change frequency, blast radius, and remaining life — so the argument stops being about taste.
- Platform Operating Model How a central platform team serves dozens of autonomous teams without becoming the bottleneck — the operating model behind an internal developer platform.
- Developers as Customers Treat the people who use your internal platform like customers, not ticket-raisers. The four journeys every platform has to nail — and how to measure whether it does.
Talks
- From Data to Dollars: Using Real-Time Data and AI to Lift Revenue and Customer Experience
- Debate: Cloud, on-prem and everything in between – Can enterprises keep control?
- Connectivity, CDNs & network edge – powering real-time digital solutions
- Architecting the Agentic Web
- Cloud Innovation: Powering Next-gen Apps
- How is AI Impacting Organisations — Ethics, Principles, Data Governance, IT and Talent?
Writing
- Platform Product Metrics: How to Tell Whether Your Internal Platform Is Helping A measurement framework for internal platforms: adoption, golden paths, delivery friction, service health, developer trust and cost to serve.
- Build vs Buy: The Decision Framework Every CTO Gets Wrong Why the build-vs-buy decision is never binary, how to think about total cost of ownership, and the hybrid approach that actually works in practice.