Bio
Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.
My Talks
Developer productivity is waste
We're developer productivity obsessed, worse, developer productivity METRICS obsessed. Deployment frequency! MTTR! eNPS! It's become a delightful distraction. Besides, who really benefits from this...
FinOps?! But I just learnt DevOps! Or, Kost Management With FinOps
You care about cloud costs. Your boss does, at least. This is especially true with containerized apps and Kubernetes. The new FinOps discipline is developing using standards to help. This talk cove...
How to survive and thrive in a BigCo (Ignite Talk)
This talk will go over what I’ve learned working in large companies from my strange adventure working with a bunch of MBAs in corporate strategy at Dell, to working with large companies as an indus...
Platform as a Product - transforming from service delivery into continuous operations
Developers don't need "services" from ops, they need products: continuously innovated platforms that evolve weekly. Once ops toil is removed, ops can focus on their customers' - development - needs...