The Art of Business Value by Mark Schwartz

The Art of Business Value by Mark Schwartz

Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means--and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements tossed over the wall by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.

Stephen is the GM (General Manager) of a new Amazon Web Services service in development, as well as the author of Ahead in the Cloud: Best Practices for Navigating the Future of Corporate IT. Stephen spent the first three and a half years of his career at Amazon as the Global Head of Enterprise Strategy, where he supervised AWS' enterprise go-to-market strategy, designed and constructed AWS' Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), and assisted executives from hundreds of the world's largest organizations in envisioning, developing, and maturing their IT operating model utilizing the cloud. Ahead in the Cloud was written by Stephen so that customers might benefit from many of the best practices he saw while working with customers in this role. Stephen was the CIO of Dow Jones before joining AWS, where he implemented contemporary software development processes and cut expenses while implementing a cloud-first strategy. The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com, Dow Jones Newswires, and Factiva all saw faster product development cycles and higher productivity as a result of these revolutionary improvements.

Stephen also spent 11 years at Bloomberg LP, where he held several leadership positions in the stock and messaging platforms before co-founding Bloomberg Sports in 2008 and serving as CTO. Stephen graduated from State University of New York College at Fredonia with a bachelor's degree in computer science. https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?utm_source=utm_source=utm_source=utm_

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ISBN 13	9781942788041
ISBN 10	1942788045
Title	The Art of Business Value
Author	Mark Schwartz
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	IT Revolution Press
Year published	2016-04-07
Number of pages	160
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