Seat at the Table (eBook)

IT Leadership in the Age of Agility

Mark Schwartz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
336 Seiten
It Revolution Press (Verlag)
978-1-942788-12-6 (ISBN)

Infos

It's not enough to say that the CIO is the geek who wears the suit, IT leaders must, now more than ever, take a seat at the table. In A Seat at the Table, CIO Mark Schwartz explores the role of IT leadership as it is now and opens the door to reveal IT leadership as it should be—an integral part of the value creation engine. With wit and an easy style, Schwartz reveals that the only way to become an Agile IT leader is to be courageous—to throw off the attitude and assumptions that have kept CIOs from taking their rightful seat at the table. CIOs, step on up, your seat at the table is waiting for you.

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Agile, Lean, and DevOps approaches are radical game changers, providing a fundamentally different way to think about how IT fits into the enterprise, how IT leaders lead, and how IT can harness technology to accomplish the objectives of the enterprise. But honest and open conversations are not taking place between management and Agile delivery teams.In A Seat at the Table, CIO Mark Schwartz explores the role of IT leadership as it is now and opens the door to reveal IT leadership as it should be-an integral part of the value creation engine. With an easy style, Schwartz reveals that the only way to become an Agile IT leader is to be courageous-to throw off the attitude and assumptions that have kept CIOs from taking their rightful seat at the table. CIOs, step on up, your seat at the table is waiting for you.

Autor

Mark Schwartz is an iconoclastic CIO and a playful crafter of ideas, an inveterate purveyor of lucubratory prose. He has been an IT leader in organizations small and large, public, private, and nonprofit. As the CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, he provokes the federal government into adopting Agile and DevOps practices. He is pretty sure that when he was the CIO of Intrax Cultural Exchange he was the first person ever to use business intelligence and supply chain analytics to place au pairs with the right host families. Mark speaks frequently on the role of the CIO, innovation in IT, and Agile and DevOps approaches in challenging and low-trust environments. With a BS in computer science from Yale, a master's in philosophy from Yale, and an MBA from Wharton, Mark is either an expert on the business value of IT or just confused and much poorer.Mark is the author of The Art of Business Value, which—he is proud to report—has been labeled by his detractors “The Ecclesiastes of Product Management,” and “Apocryphal.” The book takes readers on a journey through the meaning of bureaucracy, the nature of cultural change, and the return on investment of an MBA degree, on the way to solving the great mystery…what exactly do we mean by business value and how should that affect the way we practice IT? Mark promises that his new book, A Seat at the Table, is more canonical and less apocryphal.Mark is the winner of a Computerworld Premier 100 award, an Amazon Elite 100 award, a Federal Computer Week Fed 100 award, and a CIO Magazine CIO 100 award, which strongly suggests that there are less than 99 other people you could better spend time reading.

Inhalt

Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Part One: Finding the Table 1. Sitting Alone 2. Kept from the Table 3. Approaching Agilely and Leanly Part Two: Earning the Seat 4. Planning 5. Requirements 6. Transformation 7. Enterprise Architecture 8. Build vs. Buy 9. Governance and Oversight 10. Risk 11. Quality 12. Shadow IT Part Three: Sitting at the Table 13. The CIO's Place at the Table 14. Exhortation and Table Manners EndnotesRecommended Reading Acknowledgements

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2017
• Verlagsort: Portland
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: Agile • Agile Leadership • Agile Teams • art of business value • Black Box • black box of IT • Business Governance • Business Leadership • Business Management • Business Value • DevOps • devops leadership • devops teams • Digital Age • Digital transformation • Information Technology • information technology leadership • Information technology management • Leadership • Mark schwartz • Scaling Agile • scaling devops
• ISBN-10: 1-942788-12-6 / 1942788126
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942788-12-6 / 9781942788126