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Personal technology continues to evolve every day, but business
technology does not follow that trend. Business IT is often treated
as a necessary evil that can't be relied upon to take companies to
the next level in their corporate evolution. In "The Golden Age of
Drive-Thru IT," author Kedar Sathe offers useful, wide-ranging, and
imaginative advice about how to revive and strengthen IT
departments.
Sathe, who has been programming computers since age fourteen,
discusses how businesses must establish and execute new IT
strategies to maintain and increase their bottom line. "The Golden
Age of Drive-Thru IT" describes various aspects of technology and
how IT can rise to every occasion and become a strategic enabler.
It shows how IT can become nimble and flexible, yet produce robust
and graceful solutions that allow companies to drive toward success
in an efficient and enriching fashion.
"The Golden Age of Drive-Thru IT" communicates how innovative
ideas and smart, enthusiastic contributors will allow IT
transformations to take place, reinvent itself, rise to its true
potential, and stop selling itself short.
Agile is broken. Most Agile transformations struggle. According to
an Allied Market Research study, "63% of respondents stated the
failure of agile implementation in their organizations." The
problems with Agile start at the top of most organizations with
executive leadership not getting what agile is or even knowing the
difference between success and failure in agile. Agile
transformation is a journey, and most of that journey consists of
people learning and trying new approaches in their own work. An
agile organization can make use of coaches and training to improve
their chances of success. But even then, failure remains because
many Agile ideas are oversimplifications or interpreted in an
extreme way, and many elements essential for success are missing.
Coupled with other ideas that have been dogmatically forced on
teams, such as "agile team rooms", and "an overall inertia and
resistance to change in the Agile community," the Agile movement is
ripe for change since its birth twenty years ago. "Agile 2"
represents the work of fifteen experienced Agile experts, distilled
into Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile by seven members of the
team. Agile 2 values these pairs of attributes when properly
balanced: thoughtfulness and prescription; outcomes and outputs,
individuals and teams; business and technical understanding;
individual empowerment and good leadership; adaptability and
planning. With a new set of Agile principles to take Agile forward
over the next 20 years, Agile 2 is applicable beyond software and
hardware to all parts of an agile organization including "Agile
HR", "Agile Finance", and so on. Like the original "Agile", "Agile
2", is just a set of ideas - powerful ideas. To undertake any
endeavor, a single set of ideas is not enough. But a single set of
ideas can be a powerful guide.
Step into today's high-tech world with a pioneering female engineer
in a male-dominated field During the computer technology revolution
that transformed the world's industries during the last quarter of
the 20th century, Beverly Schultz's success story blends the
challenges and fun of engineering at its best and worst, with
specifics that engineers relate to and others treasure in this
unique view of high-tech. Her engineering career tips resound
across industries and occupations.
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