Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology
can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid
scant attention to what business value means-and how to know whether or
not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as
you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from
requirements "tossed over the wall" by business stakeholders. An
empowered team needs to understand its goal! Playful and
thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business
value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software
development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery
approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a
central concern. This book examines the role of business value in
software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of
business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will
make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but
also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the
enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the
business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for
incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all,
this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the
cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.
