Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge
Welcome to Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge with Dave Anderson, Mark McCann and Mike O'Reilly. We want to share our tools and techniques so that you can use them to communicate your Technical Strategy with your C-Suite and business owners. We want to help you to build a serverless first organisation. We will show you how to use Wardley Mapping to gain situational awareness of where your cloud applications and business are. And then how to develop your technical capability in away that builds engineering standards to set your organisation up for sustainable success.Sounds like the tools and techniques that you need - then hit the subscribe!-ABOUT- Dave, Mark and Mike are senior technical architects/leaders passionate about driving technical strategy. They have led transformation journeys, technical excellence, cloud adoption and tech strategies in many industries.Active in various technologies including ML/AI, Public Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Engineering, Product, Cyber and UX.
Episodes
64 episodes
Serverless Craic Ep63 Map the Market and A Cloud Guru Case Study
In this episode of Serverless Craic, Map the Market and A Cloud Guru Case Study, we dive into Chapters 7 and 8 of the book The Value Flywheel Effect. The discussion focuses on "Mapping the Market" and a fascinating case study on clarity of purp...
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Episode 63
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Serverless Craic Ep62 Obsess Over Time To Value
Welcome to the latest episode of Serverless Craic! 🎙️ Today, we're diving back into our series on The Value Flywheel Effect, focusing on Chapter 6: "Obsess Over Time to Value." Join us as we explore the significance of delivering v...
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Episode 62
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Serverless Craic Ep61 Finding your North Star
This episode centres on Chapter Five of the book "The Value Flywheel Effect," focusing on the North Star framework. We explain how this framework helps teams align their work with a clear, meaningful metric (North Star) and its related lead...
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Episode 61
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Serverless Craic Ep60 Mapping Techniques
In this insightful discussion, we explore mapping techniques from Chapter 3 of our book The Value Flywheel Effect and their applications in organisations. Key topics include:Anatomy of a Worldly Map: Breaking down the components of ...
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Episode 60
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Serverless Craic Ep59 How to Wardley Map
Wardley mapping is a strategic tool to visualise the evolution of products or services. The two axes of a Wardley Map are visibility and evolutionary stage. Products and technologies evolve through four stages: ...
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Episode 59
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Serverless Craic Ep58 The Value Flywheel Effect Chapter 2.2 Wardley Mapping
We discuss facilitating effective collaborative mapping workshops and creating Wardley maps for strategic planning in businesses. We look at the importance of creating a safe environment, effective facilitation techniques, and involving all sta...
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Episode 58
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Serverless Craic Ep57 The Value Flywheel Effect Chapter 2 Wardley Mapping
Dave, Michael, and Mark discussed the application of Wardley Mapping in understanding movement and making strategic decisions. They share their experiences with the method, emphasising its ability to visualise and track changes in tech stacks a...
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Episode 57
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Serverless Craic Ep56 The Value Flywheel Effect Introduction - Chapter 1
The Value Flywheel Effect is a pattern seen in organisations where business strategy and technology strategy align, leading to more sales and growth.The hosts discuss the concept of the value flywheel effect, its origins, and how it app...
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Episode 56
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Serverless Craic Ep55 Unveiling The Secrets Behind The Value Flywheel Effect
We discuss why we wrote 'The Value Flywheel Effect,' emphasising our desire to give back to the community and help others who have contributed to their success. We share our experiences and insights on navigating the cloud transformation journe...
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Episode 55
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Serverless Craic Ep54 AWS Serverless Developer Advocate Team
AWS Serverless Developer Advocate Team news is breaking. We discuss this and the importance of community events and fostering a culture of curiosity and collaboration in the tech industry. We emphasise the value of attending events like Ser...
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Episode 54
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Serverless Craic Ep53 Cynefin Framework
We use the Cynefin Framework in our cloud modernisation work. Dave Snowden created the Cynefin framework. Cynefin, pronounced "ku-nev-in," is a Welsh word that translates as "place" or "habitat." However, it can also be used to describ...
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Episode 53
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Serverless Craic Ep52 ServerlessDays Belfast 2024
ServerlessDays Belfast 2024. ServerlessDays Belfast is back at Titanic Hotel Belfast on Thursday 23rd May 2024Our theme is 'Building Beyond Boundaries: ServerlessDays Belfast celebrates the spirit of Innovation'. Find out why yo...
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Episode 52
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Serverless Craic Ep51 Introduction to Modern Software Development Lifecycle
The Software Development Lifecycle - how does it apply to modern cloud?We are kicking off this episode with the term modern SDLC. The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is changing. When you get into this new way of working, you star...
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Episode 51
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Serverless Craic Ep50 AWS re:Invent 2023
We talk about what we would like to see announced at this years AWS re:Invent 2023 looking at Observability, Generative AI, PartyRock, Developer Experience to name a few.
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Episode 50
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Serverless Craic Ep49 Team Engineering with SCORP
Team Engineering with SCORP - there are practices we do like SCORP, which is our agile way of doing well-architected in every sprint with teams. Our practices are connected to engineering excellence, looking at what you're doing and constantly ...
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Episode 49
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Serverless Craic Ep48 Working remotely from another country
There were a few stories in the news about working remotely from another country. We talk about the pros and cons of working remotely versus returning to work. We work remotely and are globally distributed, but we've worked for many years in th...
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Episode 48
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Serverless Craic Ep 47 Developer Productivity
Developer Productivity and discussions on developers and productivity have never gone away. You heard people talking about this in the 80s and the idea of paying developers by lines of code. And it was even rubbished in the 80s as a foolish thi...
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Episode 47
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Serverless Craic Ep46 Resilience Hub
How important is Resilience Hub, Chaos Testing and Well-Architected?We attended the AWS Resilience Day at the Titanic Hotel. We were sitting in the same room where the ill-fated Titanic was designed and drawn! We discuss what we learned. In...
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Episode 46
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Serverless Craic Ep45 Bringing Mapping to your Org
Bringing mapping to your org. We are doing a wee series on Wardley Mapping, with some practical items. The last two episodes were: 'Wardley Mapping 101' and 'Can Wardley Maps Predict the Future?'. So I thought it would be goo...
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Episode 45
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Serverless Craic Ep44 Can Wardley Maps predict the future?
Can Wardley Maps predict the future, is our topic this week.In our last episode, we talked about Wardley Mapping. We did a 101 last time, explaining the basics.One of the things that we say is that Wardley Mapping is a superpower ...
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Episode 44
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Serverless Craic Ep43 Wardley Mapping 101
Wardley Mapping is a core part of our book: 'The Value Flywheel Effect'. And it's a topic that people always ask about it. It's a difficult thing to learn. We've spent many years thinking about it, stumbling around, and then practicing. So we f...
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Episode 43
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Serverless Craic Ep42 ServerlessDays Belfast
ServerlessDays Belfast was on the 28th of February. It's a volunteer, community, and not-for-profit event.We had a bunch of sponsors: AWS, Bazaarvoice, EverQuote, G-P, Instil and LibertyIT.Our organizers are me, Gillian Armstrong,...
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Episode 42
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Serverless Craic Ep41 Serverless Espresso
We've been talking about AWS re:Invent over the last few episodes. But one thing that we haven't talked about is Serverless Espresso.Serverless Espresso is a pop up coffee shop that allows you to order coffee from your phone. In the Expo...
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