As an IT exec with deep experience of business and system transformation programmes, and having adopted XP back in the day, and Devops and Agile / Scrum more recently, the basics here feel solid, but the actual timelines and implementations are cloud cuckoo land.
E.g: The data warehouse hasn't produced any decent reports in 3 years, but the same people now suddenly adopt a data lake / NoSQL / Hadoop solution and in two weeks the end-users are producing amazing, accurate and complete analysis set to drive a massive profitability boost. Yeah, right!
Or quickly replacing the custom-built HR system with a SAAS solution, migrating all the data and training the users (in 2 weeks, again) resulted in amazing productivity gains and reduced total cost of ownership by $100k's per year. Easy!
And so it goes, throughout the book. Ive no argument with the underlying premis that replacing complex legacy by modularising, introducing data bus / api's and detaching small elements is the way to go. But it ain't easy, especially with 100 intertwinded systems. Or quick. Especially when it has to be done while keeping the "boeing in the air". No ability to ground the planes in a normal business scenario.
My big fear is that executives without proper grounding in tech, will read this and then assume that their IT is dragging their feet, or worse useless (although if they haven't adopted some of the new internal processes they just might be!). Its complex, guys, it requires real business ownership and it takes time and resources.
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