Software Delivery That Makes Sense
The decline and possible restoration of reason in organizations that make software against their will or better judgment.
Now that every company is a software company, recent discussions with people around me (including those not in the software business) made me rediscover the abysmal state that software delivery is in, at many places.
This article will share some of my reflections on that, as well as let me present some non-conclusive high-level advice that I believe can form a solid foundation around which such problematic organizations might be able to be rewired into actual software orgs.
Note that when I write about organizations and businesses, they will therefore not be pure-play tech companies, i.e. Meta, Google, Spotify, or such — rather the long tail of orgs (i.e. IT-enhanced legacy companies) who unfortunately have had to adapt to software being part of their output and product.
Where I am writing this from
Some context first. I have experience and learnings from several “worlds”, both currently as a Technical Standards Lead at Polestar, being an open source maker, being an overall avid technology reader, and being the founder of a tiny brand-new tech startup (since…
