Author: Matthias Patzak

  “The speed of typing out code has never ever been the bottleneck for software development (not since keyboards became widespread from the 60s or 70s)” —Gergely Orosz Software development is a complex value delivery system involving many interdependent roles, including developers, product managers, and platform engineers. Dependencies create potential bottlenecks, such as pull request […]

In response to CFOs demanding returns on technology investments, CTOs must measure software development productivity across four dimensions—business value, speed to market, delivery reliability, and team health—to effectively demonstrate how their teams create measurable impact and business growth.

Software development teams have always struggled to deliver features within the timeframe that businesses and customers expect. A recent BCG study found that over a third of respondents’ internal software development projects were delayed. Late delivery delays ROI and frustrates everyone involved. Organizations face numerous challenges when accelerating software delivery, but one stands out for its outsized […]

Maximize AI’s value without breaking the bank – this guide explores cost-optimization strategies across the AI lifecycle, from model selection and data management to FinOps practices.

For maximum generative AI impact, centralize foundations (infrastructure, data governance) but decentralize innovation across business domains. This hybrid model balances robust AI governance with agile delivery, enabling rapid prototyping aligned with strategic goals.

For more than a decade, organizations have embraced data lakes to overcome the technical limitations of data warehouses and evolve into more data-centric entities. While many organizations have used data lakes to explore new data use cases and improve their data-driven approaches, others have found the promised benefits hard to achieve. As a result, the […]

Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out a way for teams to communicate less with each other, not more. —Jeff Bezos, Executive Chairman of Amazon Traditional organizations focus on optimizing efficiency, trying to specialize and maximize the use […]

In the dynamic realm of software development, fostering a positive developer experience is critical to organizational success. However, certain practices inadvertently sabotage this experience, hindering productivity and innovation. Let’s examine these pitfalls and explore actionable strategies for IT leaders to overcome them and ensure a vibrant and efficient development ecosystem that attracts and retains talent. […]

According to the worldwide bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, people make decisions either intuitively or logically. Intuition leads to fast decisions; rational thinking leads to slow decisions. In organizations, it’s the other way around. Intuition leads to long decision-making processes; data- and fact-driven decisions lead to shorter processes. In […]

Organizations need a powerful infrastructure to realize the full value of their data. The purpose of this infrastructure is to organize data, ensure its quality, manage metadata and create a central catalog where the organization’s data can be queried. This infrastructure, called the data foundation, enables organizations to have clean, organized, and easily accessible data […]