CREST organisation: A pre-requisite to achieving Microservices success…

"Organisations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organisations." — M. Conway   As more and more organisations are moving towards the 'Microservices' world (whether rightly or not is a topic for another post), the quote above by Conway (given in 1967!) holds…

Self-Selection for Self-Organizing teams

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --Henry Ford Unless your IT organization still operates in the previous decade, chances are that you hear the term 'Agile' at your workplace, more often than you hear your own name.. Surprisingly though, very few teams teams actually…