Elements of Digital Transformation

Elements of Digital Transformation is a practitioner's guide to the digital transformation process. It is also a guide for managers in today's organizations that are accelerating the digital transformation to modernize core technology capabilities and processes. The book discusses such key components of digital transformation as processes, principles and proven methods. It also covers such novel concepts in the digital transformation as the first-time right framework, incident management transformation, digital factory, cloud migration, API-first approach and legacy modernization. Other highlights of the book include:

• A cloud migration framework along with a cloud migration methodology, roll out strategy and migration principles
• Principles and approaches for legacy modernization and process modernization
• Smart-ticket management, smart problem management, proactive maintenance and ticket avoidance architecture
• The novel digital factory approach to automate the software process

Detailed case studies, a sample digital transformation exercise and a consulting exercise for digital transformation provide readers with real-world digital transformation scenarios and best practices. The book also discusses DevOps, automation and agile delivery models that help in digital transformation.

Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar has more than a decade of experience as a senior technology architect. His areas of expertise include Enterprise Java technologies, performance engineering, enterprise portal technologies, user interface components, and performance optimization. He is a Guinness world-record holder of participation, for successfully developing a mobile application in coding marathon. He has four patent applications, including two US patent applications in the area of web and social technologies.