I presented on the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and general Azure best practices. Loved talking about the capabilities delivered by cloud governance and the best approached to adoption.
Read more "Cloud Adoption Framework Review"Have you ever tried to make a sand castle survive against the waves? I’ll admit, it can be fun for a while. The kids and I will build sand castles with extravagant moats and then create barriers between the lake and the castle. We’ll use driftwood, boards, more-sand, and… more sand. As fun as it […]
Read more "7 Habits of Inspiring Tech Leaders: (5) Agent of Architecture"I had the privilege of participating in IC Stars Milwaukee as a speaker and presenter on “Hi Tea”. IC Stars is an organization that enables the community to re-train and engage in IT as a career. I had the opportunity to speak with the resident class on cloud, Azure governance, disruption, and data oriented jobs. […]
Read more "IC Stars Milwaukee"The best tech leaders are Agents of Disruption. They view the existing ecosystem as something with a sunk cost and are willing to disrupt the current state in order to achieve a bigger gain. There are two types of change that can be implemented in a business. The first is iterative, simply building on something […]
Read more "7 Habits of Inspiring Tech Leaders: (4) Agent of Disruption"I’ve had the opportunity to work with hundreds of tech leaders in various positions. In discerning 7 qualities of Inspiring Tech Leaders, the first, and most important quality that sets a person apart is their pursuit of virtue. There are few traits of a leader that are absolute qualifiers or disqualifiers, but for most of […]
Read more "7 Habits of Inspiring Tech Leaders: (1) An Agent of Virtue"The cloud can be a somewhat imprecise term. What does it mean to talk about migrating to the cloud or refactoring an application? In order to clear up some of this ambiguity I’ve found it useful to apply Horizon Models to cloud migration efforts. The use of a Horizon Model is to define the states […]
Read more "Cloud Horizon Models and Changing Responsibility"Microsoft kicked off a great Inspire conference this year, with a number of tech announcements, as well as indication of the market through the lens of partners. Check out this 30m of content on the Best of Microsoft Inspire 2021.
Read more "Best of Microsoft Inspire 2021"Was excited to have Dr. Robert Hall on the program talking about the transformation of education. We talk about legacy education, the changes due, and the go-forward opportunities.
Read more "Change Agent CTO Podcast Episode 8"Top 10 Lessons Learned from Azure Migrations Assertively move toward a cloud operating model The traditional information technology organization will need to shift toward a modern technology organization, with a focus on becoming a Governance and Center of Excellence (CoE) org vs. a delivery organization. Draw a clear line between the modern organization and the […]
Read more "Top 10 Lessons Learned from Cloud Migration"Great conversation with Chris Blackburn and Laura Spence on Zero Trust security concepts. In this discussion we talked about how Zero Trust applies to complex environments, frequent blockers, and how to make progress.
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