Monolithic Transformation: Using DevOps, Agile, and Cloud Platforms to Execute a Digital Transformation Strategy

by Michael Coté

If your company is looking to create new business models through digital transformation, this practical ebook will help get you started. High-powered tech companies and traditional enterprises have dramatically improved business processes through cloud-native technologies and product-centric software techniques, enabling them to react to market changes much faster. Michael Coté from Pivotal explores the strategies and tactics you need to transform your in-house software creation capabilities.

Putting the technology in place is relatively easy. The real challenge is changing your organization’s culture to take advantage of the technology. Using case studies from enterprises that have suffered through and ultimately benefited from this transformation, this ebook examines the best and worst practices for making the change. You’ll learn what it takes to make your company lean, quick, and profitable.

With case studies from Duke Energy, Dick's Sporting Goods, the Internal Revenue Service, and Rabobank, this ebook examines the digital transformation process in two parts:

Part I: Fostering change—examine the principles of small-batch thinking, user-centric design, and shifting from functional teams to product teams
Part II: Cloud-native cookbook for leadership—apply those principles across your organization, from creating and communicating your strategy through building your pipeline and choosing the right cloud platform

91 pages, ebook

Published February 15, 2019

About the author

Michael Coté usually focuses on how large organizations are getting better at building and delivering software to help their business run better and grow. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, worked in corporate strategy and M&A at Dell in software and cloud, at Pivotal, and was a programmer for a decade before all that. He does several technology podcasts (such as Software Defined Talk), writes frequently on how large organizations struggle and succeed with agile development and DevOps, blogs at cote.coffee, and is @cote in Twitter. Texas Forever!

Reviews

[Jordi Mon Companys · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve always shared the views contained in Coté’s Digital Transformation framework, so this book comes as no surprise. If you have been in the software business enough you most likely have seen the cracks in the hulk just like he has.

So, you’ll prolly share Michael’s view and proposed solutions too, they are not rocket science. What strikes me this time and, I think, is more difficult to match is the clarity with which he expresses these approaches. It’s not just the correct use of the English language, of course, but rather the thorough distillation of the fundamental flavours of Digital Transformation compiled in the booklet. From a large tank filled with must made of tonnes of experience, multiple occupations across different types organizations, catalized by sheer curiosity and meticulous categorization, he’s able to pinpoint the essential topics that should concern us and to which time and thought should be devoted. That, in essence makes this booklet perfect to incorporate to your change management pitch.

But, most importantly, if you truly believe in what the eyes that have seen code bases million lines big without version control near the Tannhauser gates, summarize in this booklet, then you truly have embraced a modern approach to successful business acumen. No guarantee of success, surely, just a framework to tread steady and progress confidently in an ever changing, fiercely competitive world dominated by promptly delivered, delightful software.

[Jason Belk · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Mona Lisa. Michaelango's David. Picasso's Starry Night. These are all famous works of art. This book deserves to be preserved in history alongside these classics. The book expounds on the digital transformation of enterprises with such prose, such grace and elegance, that only a plebian would dare to question its methods or means to achieve the greatness of digitization. This timeless classic will outlive all of us, and forever be a literary classic required in high school curriculums around the globe, for decades and generations to come.

[Walter Paixão Côrtes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very enlightening book, that clarifies a lot of misconception around the digital transformation journey. A must read for everyone in companies passing through this stage.

[Morgan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some misspellings but overall, as usual - Cote delivers a great read, with plenty of humor, on topics and advice that still hold true for modern companies.