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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

The Battle of Borodino: Business as a Complex Adaptive System

August 10, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. In War and Peace, Tolstoy writes of the battle of Borodino, in which Napoleon (sort of) defeats Russia and wins the opportunity to watch Moscow burn, though not much more. The day before the battle, he walks the battlefield and gives his commanders orders for the disposition of the troops—orders which are, for the most part, ignored. During the battle, he stands in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: agile, business agility, complex adaptive system, devops, leadership, mark schwartz, war and peace and it

Unlock Your Enterprise’s Digital Transformation by Changing Your Relationship with Technologists

July 28, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. Leaders of digital transformations often look around their organizations and see heads nodding. Everyone seems to agree that change is needed to survive in the digital age. Everyone understands that it’s urgent and that there is a risk of being disrupted if the company doesn’t transform quickly enough. Capital markets are demanding growth and innovation, while the board … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, DevOps Community, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: agile, business agility, business and it, CEO, cfo, CIO, cmo, devops, digital transformation, lean, mark schwartz, transformation, war and peace and it

Q&A with Mark Schwartz and Gene Kim

May 22, 2019 by Ann Leave a Comment

Recently, Gene Kim had a chance to speak with Mark Schwartz about Mark's new book, War and Peace and IT, Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age: Gene Kim: What inspired you to write a book about IT management for business leaders? Mark Schwartz: I meet with executives from over a hundred large enterprises each year. It’s amazing how patterns emerge: so many of them are trying to transform digitally, trying to find new sources of growth and to survive disruption—and yet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: agile, business, culture, devops, enterprise, executive, information technology, IT, leadership, lean, management, operations, the art of business value

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