Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: No/Bad Metrics 2024-03-07 Managing costs is not possible if you don't have good costs metrics in place. The topic of how to create good cost metrics is worthy...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Can’t Attribute Costs 2024-03-06 Attribution is one of the many spaces in cost management where you can either do it, or have it done to you. The former is...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Bad Cloud Strategy 2024-03-05 It is likely that you are using a public cloud provider for something, unless your initials are "DHH." It's something you must have a strategy...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Not considering scale 2024-03-04 The scale of your technical operations/budget places a hard limit on how much you can afford to spend on cost management. Any efforts you make...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Intro 2024-03-03 Engineering is where science meets economics. In the tech world, this means that we as engineers are primarily concerned with using scientific and logical tools...
Anti-Patterns in tech costing 2023-12-12 I recently gave another presentation for the Vancouver software development managers. Not my greatest, but I still like the idea and it needs to be...
My most important lesson 2023-12-04 Our customers don’t come to us because we have the best technology, they come to us because we provide a better value....