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Armakuni has always been a Cloud Native company. We rode that first wave of being able to take advantage of easy to use self-service PaaS systems, and turned them into commercial benefits, for our customers, and their customers as far back as 2012.
I’m a firm believer that Test-Driven Development (TDD) should be the default way that software teams create code. I believe that its methodical approach leads developers to design and discover better ways to architect their software. However, I also believe that the best tool that we have today is n
Ben Dodd of Armakuni joins a panel run by Agility Impact. The vision of Agility Impact is to make small steps of action towards planetary challenges locally so we can create hope globally. A very aspiring vision that passionate Agilists support.
Armakuni’s talk from FastFlowConf (25 May) - Are you struggling to do more with the same number of people? It's the eternal question of management, but the answer may lie in cutting-edge research on short-term memory and organisational design.
In May 2023, Armakuni was part of the team that brought the FastFlowConf to life for the first time. A very successful 1 day conference, bringing together practitioners and leaders that are driving the change in the digital transformation space.
Energy sustainability in the tech sector is increasingly under the microscope, and rightly so. Front-runners are benefitting by using green-credentials as a competitive advantage. For the rest, regulations are on the way. We’re here to discuss both sides. What to expect from upcoming regulations, an
An Armakuni webinar, where Ben Dodd and Matthew Skelton discussed how to meet the productivity challenge many organisations are facing as we enter 2023. The session focusses in on where to start to address productivity challenges in technology delivery,
Benedict Dodd, Co-Founder at Armakuni and Peter Stuart, Technical Director at RES delivered this talk at SEACON 2022. A talk about Team Topologies enabling better productivity and quality across the board at “the worlds largest independent renewable energy provider”.
We're going to tell you a little bit about our story how a small group of people in a small country in the middle of an emergency was able to share our data our way and make a difference.
Agile Scotland #DesignBox : Site Reliability Engineering Talk - In this talk I explain SRE using things I have around my house! I'm going to teach you what it is, a little bit about how to implement it, and some pitfalls that get in the way. Team Thermometer Workshop - We will give you some of
An Armakuni webinar focussing on the impact of Cognitive Load, and important concept that anyone delivering, or more importantly, managing the delivery of software/technology. Ben Dodd and Bille Thompson give an enjoyable talk directed at leader (CIOs, CTOs and Heads of Engineering/DevOps) but rea
You probably already know that talking out loud can help you solve a problem (even if you don't want to admit it). People have even coined the term rubber ducking to help normalise it! What would happen if the rubber duck talked back? The ability to constantly discuss your code and what you are going to do next is just one of the many benefits of Pair Programming. This talk will explore one team's journey from Single Disciplinary Soloing to Cross Functional Pair Programming. Looking at how to start, styles of pairing and tips and tricks that make pairing easier.
Unleashing Success: The Power of Product Mindset & Customer-Centricity in Platform as a Product Armakuni people, Zenon Hannick and Faye Benfield talk about Platform as a product in the context of our clients and how we have helped them on this journey.
Five years ago I wrote the article Designing Microservice Architectures for People. Today I want to reflect on the content and see how it has aged. In the previous article, I put the emphasis on microservices. I also presented three ideas that would bring the focus to aligning your architecture with your organisation structure: The Single Responsibility Principle, Bounded Contexts and Conway’s Law. Let’s reflect on the ideas I presented.
Following the success of our recent workshop at SEACON, Matthew Skelton, Team Topologies co-author and Director at Conflux and Benedict Steele, Chief Delivery Officer at Armakuni discussed in this webinar how the Multi-team Software Delivery Assessment (MSDA), approach can be used to assess and empo
Mark Bradley: Pairing, Sharing, Caring - One team's journey to Pair Programming You probably already know that talking out loud can help you solve a problem (even if you don't want to admit it). People have even coined the term rubber ducking to help normalise it! What would happen if the rubber d
Pair programming is in the most basic sense the act of two or more people sharing a computer, writing some code at the same time. It creates close relationships with other developers, helps pairing developers learn, and creates feelings of shared ownership within a team.
