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Summer Read Along: A Seat At The Table | Chapter 8 – Build Versus Buy

August 11, 2022 by Lucy Softich Leave a Comment

In this series of blog posts, follow along as we revisit Mark Schwartz’s book A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Five years after its publication, it’s still highly relevant and chock full of tips, tactics, and learnings. Join us as we follow along with Online Marketing Assistant Lucy Softich as she reads through the book for the first time. Make sure you start with the introduction post! In Chapter 8: Build Versus Buy, Mark makes a radical suggestion: it is actually … [Read more...]

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Summer Read Along: A Seat At The Table | Chapter 7 – Enterprise Architecture

August 9, 2022 by Lucy Softich Leave a Comment

In this series of blog posts, follow along as we revisit Mark Schwartz’s book A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Five years after its publication, it’s still highly relevant and chock full of tips, tactics, and learnings. Join us as we follow along with Online Marketing Assistant Lucy Softich as she reads through the book for the first time. Make sure you start with the introduction post! In Chapter 7: Enterprise Architecture, we look at the very structure at the heart of … [Read more...]

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Summer Read Along: A Seat At The Table | Chapter 6 – Transformation

August 4, 2022 by Lucy Softich Leave a Comment

In this series of blog posts, follow along as we revisit Mark Schwartz’s book A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Five years after its publication, it’s still highly relevant and chock full of tips, tactics, and learnings. Join us as we follow along with Online Marketing Assistant Lucy Softich as she reads through the book for the first time. Make sure you start with the introduction post! We’ve made it to Chapter 6: Transformation, which is a hot-button word if ever I saw … [Read more...]

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Summer Read Along: A Seat At The Table | Chapter 5 – Requirements

August 2, 2022 by Lucy Softich Leave a Comment

In this series of blog posts, follow along as we revisit Mark Schwartz’s book A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Five years after its publication, it’s still highly relevant and chock full of tips, tactics, and learnings. Join us as we follow along with Online Marketing Assistant Lucy Softich as she reads through the book for the first time. Make sure you start with the introduction post! Today we're going to look at Chapter 5: Requirements. Much like the last chapter, … [Read more...]

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Summer Read Along: A Seat At The Table | Chapter 4 – Planning

July 28, 2022 by Lucy Softich Leave a Comment

In this series of blog posts, follow along as we revisit Mark Schwartz’s book A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Five years after its publication, it’s still highly relevant and chock full of tips, tactics, and learnings. Join us as we follow along with Online Marketing Assistant Lucy Softich as she reads through the book for the first time. Make sure you start with the introduction post! We've made it to Part III: Earning the Seat, the longest part of A Seat at the … [Read more...]

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Summer Read Along: A Seat At The Table | Chapter 3 – A Nimble Approach to the Table

July 26, 2022 by Lucy Softich Leave a Comment

A photo of Lucy's copy of A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility, by Mark Schwartz. Only the upper part of the book is visible, and there are seven little blue tabs sticking out of the top of the book, labeled as follows: P2P, DevOps, Kanban, Lean, Scrum, XP, and Agile.

In this series of blog posts, follow along as we revisit Mark Schwartz’s book A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Five years after its publication, it’s still highly relevant and chock full of tips, tactics, and learnings. Join us as we follow along with Online Marketing Assistant Lucy Softich as she reads through the book for the first time. Make sure you start with the introduction post! Welcome to the second week of our read-along! Today we're looking at Chapter 3: Kept … [Read more...]

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Summer Read Along: A Seat At The Table | Chapter 2 – Kept from the Table

July 21, 2022 by Lucy Softich Leave a Comment

In this series of blog posts, follow along as we revisit Mark Schwartz’s book A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Five years after its publication, it’s still highly relevant and chock full of tips, tactics, and learnings. Join us as we follow along with Online Marketing Assistant Lucy Softich as she reads through the book for the first time. Welcome back! I've been enjoying this book so far; I hope you are, too! You might want to start with the first post if you're just … [Read more...]

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Summer Read Along: A Seat at the Table | Intro & Chapter 1 – Sitting Alone

July 19, 2022 by Lucy Softich Leave a Comment

Cover of A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility by Mark Schwartz

In this series of blog posts, follow along as we revisit Mark Schwartz's book A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Five years after its publication, it's still highly relevant and chock full of tips, tactics, and learnings. Join us as we follow along with Online Marketing Assistant Lucy Softich as she reads through the book for the first time. My name is Lucy. I'm the Online Marketing Assistant here at IT Revolution, coming hot off of getting my BA in Business … [Read more...]

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A Note from the Authors of Agile Conversations

May 12, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Hello friends! After years of research, learning, and practice, we’re so glad that we can finally bring you Agile Conversations.  It started for us in a small study group, seeking to improve our own communication skills. Encouraged by our initial success, we began working with others. Now, after working with more than 100 companies and thousands of individuals, we’re confident these skills can radically and rapidly change the dynamics in an organization. Along the way we’ve seen far too many … [Read more...]

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