37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation: A Chief Architect's Journey

Gregor Hohpe

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商品描述

Many large enterprises are feeling pressure from the rapid digitalization of the world: digital disruptors attack unexpectedly with brand-new business models; the "FaceBook generation" has dramatically different user expectations; and a whole slew of new technologies has become available to everyone with a credit card. This is tough stuff for enterprises that have been, and still are, very successful, but are built around traditional technology and organizational structures. "Turning the tanker", as the need to transform is often described, has become a board room-level topic in many traditional enterprises. Not as easily done as said.

Chief IT Architects and CTOs play a key role in such a digital transformation endeavor. They combine the technical, communication, and organizational skill to understand how a tech stack refresh can actually benefit the business, what "being agile" and "DevOps" really mean, and what technology infrastructure is needed to assure quality while moving faster. Their job is not an easy one, though: they must maneuver in an organization where IT is often still seen as a cost center, where operations means "run" as opposed to "change", and where middle-aged middle-management has become cozy neither understanding the business strategy nor the underlying technology. It's no surprise then that IT architects have become some of the most sought-after IT professionals around the globe.

This book aims to equip IT architects with the skills necessary to become effective not just in systems architecture, but also in shaping and driving the necessary transformation of large-scale IT departments. In today’s world, technical transformation and organizational transformation have become inseparable.

Organized into 37 episodes, this book explains:

  • The role and qualities of an architect in a large enterprise
  • How to think about architecture at enterprise scale
  • How to communicate to a variety of stakeholders
  • Organizational structures and systems
  • How to transform traditional organizations

Armed with these insights, architects and CTOs will be able to ride the Architect Elevator up and down the organization to instill lasting change.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

許多大型企業正感受到世界快速數位化的壓力:數位破壞者以全新的商業模式意外進攻;「臉書世代」有著截然不同的使用者期望;一系列新技術已經對每個持有信用卡的人開放。對於那些建立在傳統技術和組織結構基礎上,一直非常成功的企業來說,這是一個艱難的挑戰。在許多傳統企業中,「轉動油輪」,如此數位轉型的需求經常被描述,已成為董事會層級的議題。然而,這並不像說得那麼容易。

首席IT架構師和CTO在這樣的數位轉型努力中扮演著關鍵角色。他們結合技術、溝通和組織能力,了解技術堆疊更新如何實際上有益於業務,「敏捷」和「DevOps」的真正含義是什麼,以及在更快速前進的同時需要什麼技術基礎設施來確保品質。然而,他們的工作並不容易:他們必須在一個IT通常被視為成本中心、運營意味著「運行」而不是「變革」,中年中階管理人員既不了解業務策略也不了解底層技術的組織中操作。因此,不足為奇的是,IT架構師已成為全球最受追捧的IT專業人員之一。

本書旨在為IT架構師提供成為大型IT部門必要轉型的有效能力,而不僅僅是系統架構方面的能力。在今天的世界中,技術轉型和組織轉型已經成為不可分割的一部分。

本書分為37個章節,解釋了以下內容:

- 在大型企業中架構師的角色和特質
- 如何思考企業規模的架構
- 如何與各方利益相關者溝通
- 組織結構和系統
- 如何轉型傳統組織

憑藉這些見解,架構師和CTO將能夠乘坐「架構師電梯」在組織中上下移動,注入持久的變革。