I recently saw a conversation about avoiding lock-in and the fact that it is impossible to avoid at least a degree of lock-in. Like most terms in IT, “lock-in” is one that means subtly different things depending on context. Its most common usage concerns vendors. When we complain about lock-in, we are usually complaining that …
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The Smeared Edge
Toward the end of last year, I did a lot of reading around strategy, specifically strategy as the military uses the term, but applied to internal IT. By coincidence, I read both The Phoenix Project and Stephen Wardley’s emerging book on mapping within a few weeks of each other. Apart from meshing very well, the …