The Millennial Imperative: Embracing New Technologies and a New Mind-Set

By the time that you read this, I'll be ensconced in my new position as a full-time faculty member at ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business. In my first year, I'll be teaching a number of courses in the Department of Information Systems, including CIS440: Systems Design. As part of the course curriculum, students need to read a number of books, one of which is The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (affiliate link).

At a high level, the excellent book tells the story of Parts Unlimited, a fictional retail organization in the midst of a maelstrom of technological changes and business challenges. Employees are overwhelmed, IT budgets are getting slashed, data problems are endemic, and the conflict between line-of-business employees and IT is exacerbating.

Sound familiar?

Many large organizations going Agile.