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The Good and The Bad of Bureaucracy

October 26, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

This post is adapted from Mark Schwartz's The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy: Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler. In a previous post I revealed how IT is the biggest, baddest bureaucrat on the block. But to overcome bureaucracy, we need to separate those of its aspects that are problematic from those that are not, and focus our efforts on the former. We must disengage from the metaphysical pathos and reengage in a particular way. Let's now identify the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy Tagged With: bureaucracy, business leadership, delicate art of bureaucracy, leadership, mark schwartz

Announcing The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy

October 16, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

I’m excited to announce the publication of my fourth book, The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy: Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler. Despite the whimsical title, it’s about a critical concern of enterprises transitioning to the cloud and trying to thrive in the digital economy. From my meetings with enterprise AWS customers, I know that bureaucracy is often an impediment to digital transformation. It acts to slow down or prevent innovation and adaptation. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy Tagged With: book announcement, business leadership, leadership, mark schwartz, the delicate art of bureaucracy

Making Bureaucracy Lean, Learning and Enabling

September 29, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

This post is a transcript of Mark Schwartz's DevOps Enterprise Summit- London 2020 presentation.  Hi everyone. My name is Mark Schwartz. I'm an enterprise strategist with Amazon Web Services. I think I've spoken at every one of these DevOps Enterprise Summits since 2014, so I hope you're not getting tired of me yet. I think some of you might also have read one or more of my books. There's The Art of Business Value, A Seat at the Table, and War and Peace and IT.  And the exciting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy Tagged With: agile, bureaucracy, delicate art of bureaucracy, devops, enabling, lean, learning, mark schwartz

IT: The Biggest, Baddest Bureaucrats

September 15, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

This post is an excerpt of Mark Schwartz's The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy: Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler.  IT Bureaucracy: Not Fooling Anyone Among the biggest, baddest, bullyingest bureaucrats in a large enterprise are the IT folks. Yes, us, the very IT folks who so hate bureaucracy when we find it imposed on us. Your password, we say, must be in a format that guarantees you’ll never remember it, and you must change it every few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, DevOps Community, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy Tagged With: bureaucracy, business, business agility, business and it, delicate art of bureaucracy, devops for business, leadership, mark schwartz

Three Innovative Funding Models to Enhance DevOps

September 8, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. The traditional project plan tries to manage risks by itemizing them in a register and proposing a mitigation plan for each one. Risks are mitigated to the extent necessary to bring the plan back into line—in other words, to adjust the initiative so the initial business case and plan are maintained. But the uncertainties in the IT domain go deeper—it might be that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: accounting, agile, budget, devops budgets, financial planning, innovative budgeting models, lean, mark schwartz, war and peace and it

The 3 Real Risks Every Project Manager Should Focus On

September 3, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. It turns out that people are pretty terrible at assessing probabilities and risk. In my last book, A Seat at the Table, I cited several examples to make this point—examples that I love because even knowing the right answer I still can’t convince myself it is right. The first example had to do with the TV game show Let’s Make a Deal, in which the contestant is asked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Seat at the Table, Books, DevOps Community, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: a seat at the table, devops, mark schwartz, project management, risk, risk management, software delivery, war and peace and it

Quick Guide to DevOps for the Non-IT Business Leader

August 24, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. What is DevOps 1) Small Teams of T-Shaped People DevOps is practiced in small teams, say five to nine people. Small teams can communicate among themselves face-to-face, thereby avoiding the overhead of passing around and perfecting documents. Each team is cross-functional, with skills in software development, testing, infrastructure engineering, operations, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: accelerate, agile, agile software design, automation, continuous delivery, cost reduction, devops, devops definition, devops for business, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, eric ries, guide to devops, increased speed, lean, lean manufactoring, lean software design, lean startup, mark schwartz, software delivery, software design, war and peace and it

Napoleon, DevOps, and Delivering Business Value

January 21, 2019 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

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The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist at AWS, titled "Napoleon, DevOps, and Delivering Business Value." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. I am an enterprise strategist at AWS which means I'm part of a small team of ex-CIOs and CTO’s of large enterprises, whose job it is to talk to our customers (other large enterprises) who are in the midst of a … [Read more...]

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