The failure rate of large transformation programmes is well documented and consistently misdiagnosed as a technology problem. The real causes are five repeating patterns in people, process, and leadership.
DevOps has been declared, tooled, and hired for, and most enterprise delivery is still slow and siloed. The reason is that DevOps is an operating model, and most organisations implemented it as a job title.
Conway's Law is the most reliable predictor of cloud programme outcomes that almost no one puts on the planning agenda. The architecture you get follows your org chart, not your diagram.
Cloud migration plans fund infrastructure, tooling, and architecture, and almost nothing for the organisational change that makes the technical work stick. That gap, not technical complexity, is what stalls most programmes.
