MACH is about Quality Engineering. Endless debates about Microservices have gone in the last years talking about their definition, granularity, and best-practices. These discussions can even make us lose sight of the motivations for building Microservices in the first place. MACH appeared as a simple acronym standing for Microservices, APIs…

Building APIs at the high standard is challenging. While many people would argue they are doing APIs, they are simply exposing basic read and write operations in a CRUD mode. Quality Engineering APIs are much more than that, enabling business growth with an increased composability leveraging modularity. This article focuses…

“APIs, APIs, APIs.” An overused acronym with different meanings, that all circle back to the need of performing business transactions through technology interconnectivity. APIs were initially a technical library acting as a dictionary, but they are now the cornerstone of business exchanges required to survive in the digital ecosystem. Organizations…

“Build today for tomorrow.” That’s the challenge of architecting a business platform able to thrive in a digital ecosystem where opportunities must be rapidly captured and scaled. Organizations must be able to continuously adapt their offerings and operations in an evolving environment where software becomes, if not already being, the…

Structure is required for transformation. Like castles are built and renovated on stable structures, digital businesses require stable points of construction and evolution. But many existing IT systems lack them. And a major difference for a digital platform is the speed at which changes must be delivered, creating the need…

Toyota’s employees can stop manufacturing lines. The responsibility and costs involved are high, but that’s how teams are empowered to embed quality and fix defects as soon as possible. Delivering software has similarities with a manufacturing line and can also suffer from defects added by inadvertence during the process. But…

Software operations is the business. Maintaining software operations at the high standard already requires significant efforts to ensure availability, performance, or security. But the digital competition pushes organizations to continuously improve the business with software changes that increase the risk of disrupting operations. In such a context, teams need a…

Improvement is not only about metrics. Accelerate with Quality at Speed software requires a high-performing organization able to work effectively as a whole. While the team dynamic or the quality of its interactions cannot be measured with precise numbers, it can be assessed as a group. Taking the temperature of…

It’s easy to blame someone that is not present. We usually see that between departments like product and support, or even between cross-functional teams not interacting much together. Blame is a defensive mechanism that activates itself when a human feels threatened himself, or his social group, as a way to…