Technical Debt Analysis

This is a set of conversations I had with Dave and Andrey about Technical debt, where we have been trying to explore the use of Estuarine Mapping. Session 1, starting the exercise We have defined some assumptions: We have started with a list of classic technical debt reasons, but after reviewing it, we have defined … Read more

Process Mining at Celonis

While watching this event from Data Driven NYC called “Bootstrapping a Decacorn on $15k with Celonis CEO Alex Rinke“. I have been taking some notes and ended reading “Process Mining for Dummies” book. Basic actions on processes Celonis divides between: Engagement types: Mining Tools During the video Alex Rinke comment some important aspects about the … Read more

Crypto ETFs

The story of the ETFs linked to cryptos started in 2013 with the first formal request. It was done by Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, proposed by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. They requested it 7 times starting in 2013: all rejected. The ones that have obtained the approval now have been: My initial thoughts My initial thoughts … Read more

Use cases: when a disruptor shows up

Background Technological disruption is something that happens from time to time. Right now all people is focused on Generative-AI and many people seem to be lost looking at what is going to happen. We don’t really know, accept the uncertainty and stop doing linear correlations with simplistic things as “Gen-AI is going to improve the … Read more

Richard Rumelt’s attractors and microwaves

Wardley Mapping contains the concept of “practice” and the climatic pattern of “co-evolution of practice”. But for forecasting purposes I always see it better with the concept of attractor created by Richard Rumelt. I have drawn an example, that I hope it’s clear. The microwave existed since the 40s, but they became popular in the … Read more

Philadelphia BarCamp 2023

This morning I arrived to the event at 8.00 am and I saw the dashboard was almost empty. I said myself, well I can talk about maps. So I added my talk to the dashboard. I added it on the second session as I wanted to have time to prepare something. I’m very grateful for … Read more

Generative AI, where to start?

The Generative AI’s hype is huge (bigger than the Virtual Reality hype happened in 2021). Everybody is talking about how wonderful that is coming, but when we look into our companies… where should I start? What is the situation the companies have internally to face this challenge? My suggestion, start drawing the situation AS-IS for … Read more