AWS Executive in Residence Blog
Author: Matthias Patzak
Matthias joined the AWS Executive in Residence team in early 2023 after a stint as a Principal Advisor in AWS Solutions Architecture. In this role, Matthias works with executive teams on how the cloud can help to increase the speed of innovation, the efficiency of their IT, and the business value their technology generates from a people, process and technology perspective. Before joining AWS, Matthias was Vice President IT at AutoScout24 and Managing Director at Home Shopping Europe. In both companies he introduced lean-agile operational models at scale and led successful cloud transformations resulting in shorter delivery times, increased business value and higher company valuations
What Are Three Things You Need to Do to Foster a Data-Driven Culture?
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 […]
Is Your Data Foundation Solid, Future-Proof, and Value-Added?
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 […]
How to Set Up a Platform That Effectively Supports Your Development Teams
Many of my conversations with AWS customers are about their attempts to build developer experience platforms that simplify software development and operations, automate deployments, improve software quality, reduce costs, and ensure security and compliance. Unfortunately, not all platforms live up to their expectations. The most frequently cited problem is development teams rejecting the platform that […]
Business Value is IT’s Primary Measure of Progress
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. —”The 12 Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto” In the early days of my career, the success of my IT projects was measured by delivering on time, within budget, and with sufficiently good quality. “Sufficient” often meant that hundreds of […]