[Ep.1] Monitor with Discipline Series – 2018 Practice Leader - ERP Spain.com - España y América Latina

A practice leader denotes an IT professional, who can not only walk the walk and talk the talk; but also build and lead teams to do the same. Practice leaders have to be the calm within the ever-changing storm. Everyone is talking about technologies and forgetting that friction comes from two sources – people and process. Tech is easy, but people are non-linear, differential equations that are hard to solve since they change over time. People influence processes. Think of processes as forces that can be directed positively or negatively by people. People pollute processes with political motives, selfish decisions, and personal biases. These inheritances introduce friction into processes and further affect future people interactions. Leadership sets the edge for an organization’s culture. It is the driving force for either good or bad. Where will you lead your organization? And will it retain and attract people that move the organization’s culture forward while continuing to win business? Leaders need to have answers to these questions. In this session, I will discuss my top three IT predictions for 2018 and discuss how IT professionals can remain valuable in their IT careers in the face of continuous integration and continuous delivery. - What does it take to be a practice leader? - What skills do you need for yourself? For your team?