The IT Risk Manager

A challenge that organisations face is “Tokens can be stored, but coders gotta code.”.

Before AI, Technology costs were easy to control.

Agentic development, dark factory or spec driven development is clearly a thing now.

Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prizes to recognize those individuals who had most benefited man-kind.

For over a decade, I have been helping organisations, mainly very large ones, transform to adopt a product way of working.

One of the most misunderstood concepts in software developments is value streams for software.

You might think that escalations were needed to ensure that the constrained resources of an organisation were focused on the highest priority investments.

Karl Weick’s Sensemaking is a powerful frame to understand how organisations work.

Many of the agile techniques are effective risk management tools that make problems and risks transparent and leave the solution to be determined based on the context.

One of the main strategies to avoid responsibility for delivery, and to avoid risk management of a process is to allow the system to be swamped by work, often shadow work that is not aligned to the goals of the organisation.