I’m Malcolm Groves.
I am a software executive and board advisor with 30+ years of experience across technical architecture and corporate strategy.
I help leadership teams turn technical complexity into commercial clarity.
I write about the intersection of technology and governance to help directors provide better oversight.
Recent Writing
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I’ve spent a lot of my career looking at the friction between how we want to work and how we actually deliver, and I have noticed a recurring issue that has nothing to do with the quality of the applications we build. We are hiring incredibly talented engineers to write high quality code, but we…
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I keep hearing the same dismissal from technical leaders and executives when the topic of AI in the development cycle comes up. They point to issues with code quality, the introduction of security vulnerabilities, or logic that simply doesn’t hold up under pressure. They claim that because a Large Language Model currently performs like a…
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If there is one mantra that has defined the last decade of tech, it is “move fast and break things.” And looking at the Australian ecosystem right now, we are certainly moving fast. But I worry we are about to break the wrong things. There is a dangerous disconnect playing out in our sector. On…
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I know it didn’t always feel like it, but with the benefit of hindsight, Application Security used to be a straightforward game. You wrote your code, you ran your scans, you fixed your warnings, and you went home. But lately there has been a shift. Teams aren’t spending their time fixing the code they wrote…