Field notes from the work
No vendor-sponsored trend reports. These are the notes we wrote after watching the same costly mistakes happen often enough to write them down.
- Cloud9 min read
The modernisation trap: why lift-and-shift stalls at 60%
Almost every migration we are asked to rescue looks the same - the easy 60% moved, the remaining 40% pinned down by undocumented dependencies, and a cloud bill higher than the data centre it replaced. Here is the sequencing that avoids it.
Read more - AI12 min read
Agentic AI in the enterprise: a governance-first blueprint
Autonomous agents are not a model problem, they are a permissions problem. A practical control framework covering scope boundaries, human checkpoints, cost ceilings and the audit trail your risk committee will ask for.
Read more - Cloud7 min read
FinOps is not a dashboard - it is an operating discipline
Cost visibility does not reduce cost. What reduces cost is putting the spend in front of the engineers who cause it, on the same cadence as their sprint review. Four practices that actually bend the curve.
Read more - Security10 min read
Zero trust for the mid-market: a 90-day path
You do not need an enterprise security budget to close the gaps attackers actually use. A staged plan starting with identity, then device posture, then segmentation - sequenced by risk reduced per rupee spent.
Read more - Data8 min read
Data products over data projects
Projects end and their outputs rot. Products have owners, versions, contracts and consumers who complain when quality drops. Reframing your data estate this way changes what you fund and how you staff it.
Read more - Transformation6 min read
Change fatigue is a technology problem
When teams resist a new system, the usual diagnosis is culture. Usually it is the fourth tool this year, none of them integrated, each adding steps to the same task. Fix the estate and much of the resistance evaporates.
Read more - Enterprise11 min read
Your ERP go-live will fail on data, not process
Profile the source data in week one and the rest of the programme gets easier. Leave it until user acceptance testing and no amount of change management will save the weekend. A field-tested migration checklist.
Read more - Reliability8 min read
Writing SLOs your engineers will actually defend
Most service level objectives are copied from a blog post and quietly ignored. Objectives that survive are derived from user journeys, owned by the team on call, and connected to a real decision about what gets shipped next.
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