Truth from the Valley: A Practical Primer on Future IT Management Trends

by Mark Settle

Management challenges faced by IT leaders in Silicon Valley will eventually be encountered by IT leaders everywhere. Successful Silicon Valley firms operate in radically different ways when compared with their conventional Fortune 500 counterparts. Valley firms rely almost exclusively on cloud-based business applications and cloud-computing resources to conduct daily business. In addition, they are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence and machine-learning tools to extract business information from vast quantities of data. Valley firms are operating on the leading edge of the changes taking place within the IT industry. In some cases, they are literally defining the leading edge of such changes!

Truth from the Valley provides insight into ways in which people, process, and technology management challenges have been addressed by IT leaders in Silicon Valley. This book provides a comprehensive portrayal of the trends that will shape IT management practices in the next decade, and it challenges its readers to find ways of converting these challenges into opportunities that will enable their organizations to become more efficient, more impactful, and more business relevant in the future.

Genres: Technology

214 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 24, 2020

Reviews

[Ashik Uzzaman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Last week I finished Truth from the "Valley: A Practical Primer on Future IT Management Trends" by Mark Settle. This is thanks to Wali bhai and Asha bhabi who gifted me this book. This is the second book from Mark which is better than his earlier one "The Truth from the Trenches". He talks about how Silicon Valley is in the Silicon Valley is the leading laboratory for Information Technology (IT) Management.

Mark divided this book into 3 majors parts - People, Process and Technology.

(1) People - Mark introduces the concept of talent debt similar to technical debt, the war for talent, superhero culture, coaching vs managing, teamwork. He argues that people development is of 2 types - remedial development to perform the job at hand and career development to perform at a higher level.

(2) Process - Here Mark touches on Minimum Viable Process as opposed to Minimum Viable Product that was introduced by Eric Ries in "The Lean Startup". He also talks about Application Development and Maintenance (ADM), API Governance, Data Management, Security Culture, Compliance, Agile, Workflow Automation.

(3) Technology - In this part he mentions differences between systems of records vs systems of engagement, IT's shared role in SaaS implementation, Infrastructure Abstraction, Virtual Workplace, Vendor Ecosystem Leverage.

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