I’m excited to announce that I’m writing a new book for O’Reilly:
Follow the Money: Understanding the Financial Architecture of Software.
This is a project that’s been quietly brewing for several years. 👇
The book’s primary goal is to help those engineers and managers whose efforts to change their organisations with technology hit the buffers as they scale. The direct application of sweat and resultant problem-solving worked well when you’re a more junior engineer, but as you try to make more fundamental and wide-ranging change seems to work less and less effectively. This book is intended to cast light on the invisible barriers that block your progress, and give you the tools to understand how to change them.
Its secondary goal is to be a more practical guide to making change within technical organisations, and even across wider businesses. While many books and blog posts exist on what the ideal state of various aspects of your organisation (culture, team structure, test practices, platform technologies etc) not enough of them give practical advice on how to get there, which is a far messier process. It might even help your career by allowing you to see how why – and just how challenging – it will be to get there, and perhaps consider setting yourself up for success elsewhere.
I hope the book will distil the experiences I’ve had over the past five years as a Could Native consultant with Container Solutions, and the last 30 years as an engineer, to give the reader a head start in navigating these murky waters.
The book will be replete with practical advice and real-world case studies to illustrate and provide inspiration (and caution) about what lies ahead for those that want to make positive change.
I hope you’ll join me on this journey. If these themes resonate, stay tuned. I’ll be sharing updates, excerpts, and insights here along the way. In the meantime, this video (‘How Money Flows Trump Conway’s Law) shares some of my more embryonic thoughts from a couple of years ago.
Your thoughts, questions, and experiences are always welcome!
Let’s follow the money together.