by Steve Laufmann
IT leaders are often trapped between the business demand for rapid changes in their information systems and the strong forces that work to prevent those changes.
Breaking Through the Agility Barrier delivers Insight, Understanding and solid Practical Advice from Steve Laufmann, an expert in agility enhancement, enterprise architecture, and business–IT transformation.
Breaking Through the Agility Barrier offers a deep and honest diagnosis of how and why IT fails:
Breaking Through the Agility Barrier offers simple yet powerful organizing principles for understanding and addressing these issues:
Breaking Through the Agility Barrier offers practical guidance for IT leaders:
A well-crafted book filled with gems of insight that can change the whole experience for IT leaders charged with delivering business agility. Applying decades of industry experience and his ability to step back and see the forest for the trees, Laufmann provides a clear and accessible approach for alleviating the complexity of IT systems.
Articulate writing, practical examples, and helpful charts summarize the Agility Framework, which exhorts IT to focus on the longer-term, sustainable success of a business. This includes rationale for how and why to design and coordinate thoroughly and early and across an enterprise.
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