Cyberpunk Southern Fried Chicken and Spices (Dall-E and me)

Kentucky Fried Technology

We all know that the secret to good southern fried chicken is in the blend of spices used to flavour it, the quality of the ingredients and the process used to cook it. In many ways, this is very similar to what makes a successful modern Technology department… Obviously, the word “similar” is doing a…

2022 European Software testing Awards

HOW TO WIN AN INDUSTRY AWARD

I recently had the opportunity to be a judge for the European Software Testing Awards. I know what you’re thinking. It’s probably the same as Mahatma Gandhi: “Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men”, and you’d be right (I’m also sure he meant “people”). But in this instance, I reckon we can…

Productivity

Let’s Talk Dirty…Productivity

I recently gave a talk at the Enterprise IT Strategy Forum about maximising software development productivity. As shown in the photo below, despite reading through my slides numerous times, I clearly forgot to proof read the opening one…oops! Typos aside, it was all good fun and led to many interesting conversations and connections afterwards. If…

IoP – The Internet of Potatoes

Continuing to push analogies to breaking point…This time with fries! You might have seen a post recently with describing an application as front end, back end and API. Something along these lines: Nice. Elegant. Simple. It provides a convenient way to talk about technology that everyone can relate to….but is it too simplistic? There’s lots…

Pizza as a Service 2.0 - Paul Kerrison

Pizza as a Service 2.0

Recently I was trying to describe the various types of cloud services available for modern IT deployment. Like many, I resorted to an analogy – the ever popular “Pizza as a Service”. However, the more I tried to use it, the more strained it became – my main difficulties were: The elements intuitively thought of…