Platforms & 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.
18 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
- Your Internal Developer Platform Will Not Survive AI Unchanged AI changes the job of an internal developer platform. Model access, data context, evaluation, agent runtime, cost attribution and policy now need a supported path, not six teams inventing six different stacks.
- Technical Debt Portfolio Scorecards: Stop Arguing About Messy Code A practical scorecard for prioritising technical debt by interest rate, change frequency, blast radius, remaining life and cost of repair.
- 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.