The use of physical infrastructure has changed substantially in the last three years. Data centres are scaling down, offices and branches are being re-considered. One view is that offices are ‘playgrounds’ where white collar workers gather to chat, socialise, drink free coffee and have face-to-face for one or two days a week. An opposing view is that its legacy way of working but it will take time for people to adapt to remote work.
HS052 Professional Liability and Qualified Design
As technology becomes more critical and vital to companies business leaders are beginning to question the reliability and liability. Insurers now require audits and demand complienace with set practices before issuing a policy. Corporate boards are realising that so-called tech professionals have zero training or professional requirement, consultants have even less and the analysts are…
HS051 Things I Wish I’d Known Back When
Oft-asked question that doesn’t have a right answer. We discuss non-convential answers that career coaches or self-help twaddle won’t give you.
HS050 The Tech Job Debacle
Google, Microsoft, Twitter, META/FB and a few others laid off an estimated 200,000 tech and tech-adjacent folks in recent weeks. Other companies like Fedex and Amazon have made layoffs, many impacting the IT teams. What does that mean for the tech industry? Between AI and our corporate overlords are we all lucky to be employed, and should we go back to working 80 hour in-office weeks?
HS049 Evanescent vs Enduring IT
IT organisations tend towards two strategic approaches – enduring, permanent and susatined. Or short term, consumable and fungible IT.
HS048 Using Personal Product Branding To Be Better Paid Technology Engineer
Many business executives are incompetent scumbags and yet they managed to get the job and get paid serious money. What can technology engineers learn from these fools so that they get the same results aka more money and less work.
HS047: Architect/Engineers/Operations, Career Progression and Liability
What are these roles and how do they fit into a strategy ? Who solves problems, designs solutions, and tests to make sure that’s workable ? How do we create/train people for these roles ? What about professional liability ?
HS046 What Do We Do About China ?
The new geopolitical reality means that China is part of IT Strategy. The supply chain is changing, joint ventures are limited and more.
HS045 Seize Opportunities for Modern IT Operations with VIA (Sponsored)
AIOps is been a buzzword but public generative AI and LLMs like ChatGPT mean there is a lot more awareness and demand. In todays sponsored show we are talking to Vitria about VIA AI Ops and how you can add it to your IT strategy.
HS044 Is Digital Transformation Bollocks ?
So much wasted marketing on Digital Transformation. Was it all bollocks or was there something real underneath the bombast and hype ?
Heavy Strategy 43 Is The IT Team In The Service, Project or Product Business
Differences between project (disruption, replacement), service (smooth, continuous) and product (updates, changes) mean that process and people have very different approach to technology management and operations.
HS0042 Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job
Short answer is yes. Long answer is long. CHatGPT is useful for demonstrating potential and getting more funding for AI. In terms of potential for real work, well, its not good enough.
HS041 Intelligent Network Automation With BackBox – Sponsored
We talk a lot about automation and orchestration and how they can change your network strategy and smooth network workflows. But not everybody wants to sit around writing code and building test labs. Greg and Johna talk with Josh Stephens and Chanoch Marmorstein from sponsor BackBox about its network automation software, how it fits into a network operations strategy, and how BackBox focuses on the network engineer.
HS040 Top Mistakes Technology Strategists Make
It might be curmudgeon day. Johna and Greg ask what are mistakes that we have seen in technology strategies.
HS039 Operating an Enterprise Architecture Function
After setting questions and perspectives on What is Enterprise Architecture, the natural sequence is How to Maintain and Operate an Architecture team.
HS038 What is Enterprise Architecture And How To Plan For It
Some companies use formal Enterprise Architecture (EA) to maintan a consistent IT strategy. Its not often successful so we discuss possible ways to practically maintain the EA function.
Heavy Strategy 037 – Metaversing The Office is More Than One Thing
Are there angles on future metaverse that make sensee ? Johna and Greg dive into their perspectives on what is a metaverse and converge on the face that its a form of collaboration. Potentially it could be immersive with VR googles but more likely it’s about engaging data from external domains into the collaboration experience.
HS036 Cyberstupid – Can We Stop Doing Dumb IT Security
You can’t make a profit from Cybersecurity, its a cost. How do we work with business to see IT risk management on the same level as accounting and human resources ? Johna and Greg discuss various options on market, process and methods that could help you work on your cyber situation.
HS035 Quiet Quitting Hustle Culture
Whats the deal with Quiet Quitting ? Johna & Greg get into a heated debate about the nature of work. Johna wants people to ‘do your job’, Greg wants ‘pay me more to do more’. How much can a companies expect from their employees as hustle culture is being rejected by more people.
HS033 Getting real about LEO Space Networking
Should LEO space networks be part of your network ? Are there common questions about using and designing for them ? What should be expecting from your telco ?
HS034 Introducing Graphiant Stateless Cloud WAN – Sponsored
Graphiant Stateless Cloud WAN addresses the limitations of SDWAN – better scalability, more flexibility and service guarantees. Their stateless network core is multi-tenant, predictable and scalable. Customers get the benefit of SDWAN with less of the problems. We unpack the details in this episiode with Khalid Raza, Founder and CEO of Graphiant and ask questions to understand how it would fit your strategy.
HS032 Mentors and Leadership
Is there a role for career mentors and coaches in modern IT ? We discuss the topic and establish some points. IT Careers are high value and high effort but unlike other professions (such as law or medicine) there are no gatekeepers to working. This leads to training and ‘life coaches’ that are unregulated and often unprofessional.
HS031 Kolide and Honest Security
We discuss how Kolide tools engage the user to improve end-point security. Monitoring devices and then contacting the user to gather more information and provide contextual questions is a novel approach.
HS030 Can Low Code Fit Your IT Strategy
Both sides of the low code/no code debate. We outline two sides of the debate, discuss four topics in favour of low code and then cover four negatives. Avoidance of toil coding, avoid skill shortage and viable testing are good things. Lockin, shadow IT and ownership are problematic. Its a solid debate on the topic.
HS029 Do You Want A Strategic Vendor ?
The pro and con’s of having preferred supplier for IT technology ? You can save time and effort, simplify purchasing and move quicker but are you getting the best solution and support. We discuss different perspectives on going down the path and point out the subscription pricing moves towards vendor lockin.
