Stories about organisations that become too large, too complex and too detached from the people doing the work never really age. This is the territory… Read More »What Happens When You Combine The Circle, The Phoenix Project and Office Space? Human Software.
Human Software is a book about the importance of people working together to overcome corporate machinations. It’s a story about how humans are blamed for… Read More »How Human Software Got Its Look
Human Software has surprised me. Not because people are reading it, though that’s its own kind of miracle, but because of who is reading it,… Read More »Who Should Read Human Software? Three Reader Experiences
In March, I was at a ConfigManagementCamp in Ghent, speaking about themes from Human Software. Some entrepreneurs earlier in the programme had been boasting that… Read More »Why I’m angry about Data Centres and You Should Be Too
As I sit in my bed, feeling a little under the weather and sorry for myself, I think about what I can watch to cheer… Read More »Where Office Space meets Local Hero
That time of year when you’re assessing things. How much you ate, how much you drank, how fit you feel. Our minds turn inwards as… Read More »Being Generous with Your Ideas
HUMAN SOFTWARE is now available as an AI-voiced Apple Book for you to listen to wherever you are. While I’m anti-AI, pro-human, I’m also definitely… Read More »Audiobook now available on Apple Books
Software increasingly runs our lives, yet business executives appear to know less and less about the systems they themselves commission. These systems permeate every corner… Read More »Reflections on Mr Bates vs The Post Office
I was in London last week for a couple of reasons. First of all, I was attending the wonderful Fast Flow Conf, meeting friends and… Read More »A Fun Little London Book Launch for “Human Software”
Two years ago, I started writing a novel about IT and Software Development. Why? Well, I’d loved reading “The Phoenix Project” and “The Unicorn Project”,… Read More »Human Software Now Available in Paperback, Kindle, Leanpub and Elsewhere