A Seat at the Table – IT Leadership in the Age of Agility – Part 3 By Mark Schwartz “Courage, I say, is the value most needed by Agile IT leaders.” – Mark Schwartz Last Time in Part 2 Enterprise Place at the Table IT leadership runs the business along with the others who run the business. The seat at the table is earned by being at the table. The role of senior IT leadership has always been framed deeply opposed—let me say that again—deeply opposed to the control paradigm. If the main goal of IT leadership is to demonstrate that they can control projects and make them deliver according to plan—in other

A Seat at the Table – IT Leadership in the Age of Agility By Mark Schwartz “Mark Schwartz is a rare combination: a deep thinker who has also applied lean, Agile, and DevOps principles at the highest Architecture. The asset view of IT will substitute for the outdated project view in my vision for what IT leadership must become. Uncertainty and Risk: Third, underlying all of these changes – all of the problems evolutionary change 3. Respect the current process, roles, responsibilities, and titles 4. Encourage leadership at all levels Planning Espousing the Wrong Values: The real reason we should reject the plan-driven

A Seat at the Table – IT Leadership in the Age of Agility – Part 2 By Mark Schwartz “To the talented and hard-working government employees, so resilient in the face of impediments, criticism, and abuse at Amazon Web Services and the author of The Art of Business Value and A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Before joining AWS he was the CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Service

who make suggestions or point out problems are viewed as whistle-blowers and troublemakers 3. leadership is actively suppressing, even punishing, learning and improvement, perpetuating quality and safety