WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

WHY IT MATTERS: 3 major players in cloud computing are battling it out on sales rather than technology as the platforms mature and the enterprise adoption skyrockets. Gartner quadrant provides overview of the major players. Google is immature, AWS has aggressive sales tactics and Azure offering is confusing.

WHY IT MATTERS: a short post that gives an overview of cost and delays when building a hardware product. In my experience, these numbers are realistic but can, of course, be much much bigger... ;-)

The paper behind yesterday's spotify videos on their agile structure.

Amazing two 15 min videos describing the engineering culture and organization of teams at spotify. In a nutshell they give team full autonomy to deliver products all the way to production, thus eliminating the possible excuses that one can have for not being able to reach their targets. AMAZING structure and video. Must watch.

And this does not apply only to startups. Established companies should consider re-organizing their teams based on the agile principles that spotify puts forwards. The projects that I see failing or suffering from delays and bloat in large companies I see around would be in much better shape if they implemented similar structures....