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A Seat at the Table
- IT Leadership in the Age of Agility
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
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Summary
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 wit and 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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- Mr David Igoe
- 27-05-18
For senior IT leaders when the business isn't IT
From the relationship of IT and the business/in the business to agile, DevOps, shadow IT, build Vs buy.
Probably the most relevant and inspiring book I've heard this year.
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- Dan Swain
- 05-12-17
Up there with Lean Enterprise
This is a really good interpretation of what Agile and Lean mean for business and in particular CIO's.
You might find it contraversial or I hope thought provoking, a lot of our current systems are about trying to control and constrain IT as if it were a 3rd party and miss the benefits of fully embracing it and using it to the benefit of the customer and business.
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- HajiVictor
- 13-01-21
Leadership Gold
Mark Schwartz is a genius....
He spills out wisdom that cuts over multiple ranks & across various functions of an enterprise for the suffering CIO that wants to be recognised. In the end, it turns out the CIO is the HERO of the enterprise after all.
The narrator's voice is an easy listening GEM
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- Morgan
- 23-10-19
Modern view of IT
In a world where SME companies can have a ‘varied’ approach and methodology to IT processes and structure, this book gives some great insights to the trials and tribulations to It management.
Book brings together arguments and view points that can have numerous benefits for the business. A pleasant read that’s helped focus IT on VALUE
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- IrishMan in France
- 21-07-19
Inspiring & fun to listen to
This read (listen) pushed me to question the so called collective IT beliefs (governance, waterfall...). It's a nice combination of questioning, disruption and vision. Its is also quite pragmatic and applicable. The narration is light and at times funny. Ultimately has inspired me to rework my vision at work. I want to go out and buy it for all my team....
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- Fred
- 02-04-19
Mostly criticism of the old paradigm
This was a disappointing experience. The author is clearly a critic of the old paradigm which is fine but I learned much more about what was wrong about the old model and much less on the detail of how the new model works and why.
I also found the language and tone of the book a tad pretentious which put me off the content.
The book also felt padded to me and I found myself skipping forward at times as he said the same thing over but cast in different ways.
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- Richard Ray
- 20-09-18
Great viewpoint
To have a CIO's viewpoint with an agile mindset has been very interesting and I've taken away many ideas from this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-02-18
A insightful and reassuring listen
Really interesting book with some thought provoking content. Would recommend to anyone looking to move into a senior IT leadership role
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- Thomas Doxtater
- 25-04-19
Tantalizing in its vision, but no guidebook
Excellent conceptually, but does not assert enough detail to be actionable at the scale described.
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- Adrian W. Rich
- 02-04-18
Sage, practical, visionary & courageous
If DevOps & Agile transform how developers and engineers think, then what do IT "leaders" bring to this revolution? This book was an articulate treatise on the IT Leader as "Business Leader" in marshaling the true impact and value of DevOps & agile to the business world.
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- Ignacio Carrasquedo Garcia
- 21-02-19
Excelente Libro
Excelente opción, da una explicación muy profunda del paradigma del significado de "Ágile and lean IT" vs los modelos de administración de IT mas comunes.
1 person found this helpful
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 17-01-19
Great book for a managers
I think that this book should be read by an any manager, which thinks that he understand how to be agile.
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- Stephan
- 17-04-21
Needs more Ops in DevOps
Between the philosophical wanderings, there are a few nuggets in there, but it's a little dry in the middle and there's a handful of contradictions (build instead of buy, unless of course you're referring to cloud infrastructure). Seems to be aimed at leaders in large orgs with established software development teams. If you're in a small or medium org and/or only have operations, it's harder to find anything actionable.
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- Amy
- 27-12-20
Great content slightly overgeneralized
Good read! Hit on some extremely relevant points but also extremely biased toward agile methods.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-07-20
This is the CIO manual
if you are the CIO then this must be the goal for your organization. This book really identifies the antagonistic relationship between the business and IT.
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- IG
- 12-08-19
Insightful but a bit repetitive
I can recommend it to Tech leaders since it does highlight a number of misconceptions with regard to leading in the new world of Technology. Agility, not necessarily Agile, being the key takeaway.
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- PTH
- 13-11-18
The story of my life
Excellent overview of the evolution of IT over the years. Great presentation style. It put in perspective my experience as a software engineer in the complex relationship with the buisness.
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- Joseph F Brown
- 06-02-18
Insightful
The principals Mark Schwartz writes about are incredibly insightful. The aspects of Agile and DevOps addressed in this book aren't covered any where else I've seen and are critical to understanding why these disciplines came to be.