Becoming a Software Company

There is a call to action reverberating in company boardrooms, earnings calls, technology conferences, and IT departments: every company should be a software company. The call makes intuitive sense. Software, when done right, creates infinite business leverage. It is not a coincidence that 7 out of 10 largest companies in the world are software companies. But how does a company become a software company? This book will help enterprises transform into a software company.
The software-driven future that Marc Andreessen predicted in his now-famous 2011 essay is here but unevenly distributed. While enterprises, and teams within, grasp the software technologies, they lack the context to leverage them much less understand the fundamental principles that drive the business value from software: What is the real essence of the software-based transformation? If every enterprise is implementing the same technologies, what is the sourceof differentiation? How do you manage the inherent complexity of software such that it doesn't destroy software's value? How do you build and nurture talent so that it is empowered to create the best solutions for your customers' problems? This book will answer all of that and more.
The boundary between enterprise and consumer software is rapidly blurring. IEEE reports that 40% of the cost of a new car comes from software . Elsewhere, software is becoming synonymous with medical devices and therapeutics . FinTech and EdTech trends are primarily about personalization through software at an internet-scale. The struggling enterprises are up against it. They have no choice but to figure out how to ship consumer-grade software. It is an existential problem for them.
This book compiles the timeless principles of building good software, yet often disregarded while building and deploying software products for enterprises.
What You'll Learn

• Leverage people to build creative software solutions
• Manage development complexity so that we keep software focused on user problems

• Understand software technology as a means of producing value Who This Book Is ForEnterprise Executive Management, Enterprise IT Management Professionals, Software Practitioners within Enterprise

  Study a coherent end-to-end conceptual framework to envision, build and ship good software Understand how the principles in the book will help the enterprises to right-size their existing methods Learn how successful software development requires empowered collaboration across small and multidisciplinary teams

  Autorentext

  Amarinder Sidhu is a Managing Director at ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte. He creates health and medical software products, and manages a portfolio of software products that enable patient engagement for health enterprise companies. He loves understanding and applying technology to solve real business problems, from ideation to deployment. He has learned all aspects of enterprise software through hands-on work in product management, software development, and business strategy and is passionate about building great product and software engineering teams because great teams build great software. He had presented at conferences like Salesforce's Dreamforce and AWS's Re:Invent.

  Inhalt
  Part 1.- Chapter 1: 1. Don't Pursue Transformations, Make The Software Shift.- Chapter 2: 2. Create New Value through Customer Progress, Not by Meeting Requirements.- Chapter 3:To Multiply Value, Mitigate Complexity First.- Part 2.- Chapter 4: Don't Procure Software, Create a Dynamic Stack Instead.- Chapter 5: Implement a Strategy of Business Agility, Before the Agile Methods.- Chapter 6: Manage Development Flow, Not Project or Product Timelines.- Part 3.- Chapter 7: Teams build Good Software, Not Resources.- Chapter 8: To Become Great, Practice the Art of Creative Management.- Conclusion.