Enterprise release management : agile delivery of a strategic change portfolio

Suitable for IT professionals and project managers working to effect positive change in their organizations, this book presents a fresh paradigm for the management of evolving business and IT architectures that comprise the modern, integrated, business. It emphasizes the delivery of projects with proper planning and prioritization.

Author Notes

Louis J. Taborda is a founder and managing partner of the Alinement Network. He has consulted internationally, working across the project life cycle and attempting to bridge the business and IT divide. He has over 25 years of industry experience and holds several undergraduate qualifications along with a Ph.D. from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He can be followed on Twitter @alinement.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xvii
1 The Evolving Enterprise	p. 1
1.1 Enterprise 2.0	p. 2
1.1.1 Relentless Business Change	p. 3
1.1.2 A Necessary Management Synthesis	p. 4
1.2 Unifying Release Management	p. 5
1.2.1 Historical Context of the Release	p. 6
1.2.2 Release Management in Software and IT	p. 8
1.3 The Enterprise Perspective	p. 12
1.3.1 Overview of Enterprise Architecture	p. 13
1.3.2 Modeling the Enterprise	p. 13
References	p. 20
2 Embracing Change and Complexity	p. 23
2.1 Wrestling with Change and Complexity	p. 24
2.1.1 Relendess Business Change	p. 25
2.1.2 Enterprise Complexity	p. 31
2.2 Managing Change and Complexity	p. 37
2.2.1 Change-Complexity Cycle	p. 37
References	p. 43
3 The Enterprise Pattern	p. 45
3.1 Managing Enterprise Dynamics	p. 46
3.1.1 The Real Enterprise System	p. 48
3.1.2 Managing Change Dynamics	p. 53
3.2 Enterprise Release Planning	p. 61
3.2.1 Planning as Temporal Simplification	p. 62
3.2.2 Enterprise Cohesion	p. 68
References p. 73
4 The Project Paradigm	p. 75
4.1 The Project Construct	p. 76
4.1.1 The Changing Project Definition	p. 77
4.1.2 The PM Practice	p. 80
4.2 Projects in the Enterprise	p. 84
4.2.1 The Project Culture	p. 85
References	p. 89
5 Release-Centric Planning and Design	p. 91
5.1 Enterprise Change Governance	p. 93
5.1.1 The Enterprise Change Portfolio	p. 94
5.2 Planning the Portfolio Release	p. 100
5.2.1 Enterprise Release Logistics	p. 102
5.2.2 Establishing Release Coherence	p. 109
References	p. 115
6 Delivering the Enterprise Release	p. 117
6.1 Strategy and the Alignment Trap	p. 119
6.1.1 Opportunities and Traps	p. 119
6.1.2 Downstream Release Governance	p. 125
6.2 Assessing Delivery Patterns	p. 130
6.2.1 The Customer-Supplier Relationship	p. 131
References	p. 140
7 The Enterprise Release Paradigm	p. 141
7.1 Generalizing the Release	p. 142
7.1.1 Introducing the Release Matrix	p. 143
7.1.2 Resolving Enterprise Multiplicity	p. 148
7.1.3 Managing with the Release Matrix	p. 156
References	p. 168
8 The Enterprise Release Life Cycle	p. 169
8.1 Delivery Life Cycles: Past and Present	p. 171
8.1.1 Traditional Life Cycle Models	p. 171
8.2 The Enterprise Life Cycle	p. 178
8.2.1 Animating the Enterprise Pattern	p. 179
8.3 Strategic Enterprise Planning	p. 191
8.3.1 The Enterprise Roadmap	p. 192
References	p. 197
9 Practicing Enterprise Release Management	p. 199
9.1 ERM as a Unifying Approach	p. 201
9.1.1 The Applicability of ERM	p. 201
9.1.2 Time for a New Paradigm	p. 207
9.2 Adopting ERM Practices	p. 214
9.2.1 Implementing ERM	p. 215
References	p. 227
About the Author	p. 229
Index	p. 231

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