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Developer platforms promise to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. This book condenses a decade of building and rolling out platforms into practical advice for platform teams and users.5300+ happy readers! Also as Paperback edition

Strategy is the difference between making a wish and making it come true. To make your cloud journey a reality, and not just a wish, you’ll want to stay clear of buzzwords and product minutiae. Instead, focus on principles, decision models, and trade-offs that you can communicate broadly throughout your organization. This book tells you how. Paperback editionHardcover edition

Software and infrastructure only create value when they pull in the same direction as the business. This book shows IT leaders how to get there: from shaping IT strategy and the architecture roadmap to the daily discipline of IT and architecture governance, all built on a pattern-based approach that adapts to your organization rather than forcing it into a template.Grounded in established frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, and ITIL, it pairs solid fundamentals with numerous real-world examples — and gives growing weight to compliance and IT security, now central concerns of any IT management agenda.This English edition is based on the German standard work on the subject, fully revised in its 4th edition (late 2024). It is current with TOGAF 10 and reflects recent developments in business-oriented enterprise architecture — including the open-source tool EDGY and patterns for digital strategy — alongside the latest trends in IT risk management and cybersecurity architecture.

Les plateformes pour le développement promettent de réécrire les lois de la physique informatique : elles stimulent l'innovation grâce à des normes, elles accélèrent le développement tout en garantissant la conformité et elles réduisent la charge cognitive sans restreindre le choix. Construire une telle plateforme en interne, ou même en déployer une, est cependant loin d'être facile. Ce livre condense une décennie de construction et de déploiement de plateformes en conseils pratiques pour les équipes et les utilisateurs de plateformes.

Most enterprises can deliver fast, but few can adapt at scale.The Cybernetic Enterprise introduces a unifying operating model that embeds AI, feedback loops, and platform thinking into the DNA of your organization. Learn how to build a system that senses change, learns continuously, and transforms disruption into strategic advantage.

Great execution doesn't create scale. Category creation does.Designing for Scale is for Product Managers, founders and builders who are done optimising incremental gains and ready to design systems that compound. Drawing from real-world experience across emerging and mature markets, this book breaks down how products move from 0 → 1 and then from 1 → 100M by fusing product, business model and distribution.This is not a playbook for fast followers. It is for people who want to define what comes next.

Are you about to embark on a SharePoint Intranet project? Learning how to plan your project, design your Intranet and engage your users. This book is full of thoughts, tips and advice to help you build a better Intranet from someone who has been there many times before.

Digitale Transformation war das Hype-Thema vor KI. Es gibt allerdings einen nicht geringen Anteil an Fach- und Führungskräften, deren Wissen darüber weiter ausbaufähig ist. Dieses Buch ist eine Einführung für alle diejenigen, die keine "digitalen Pioniere" sind, sondern wissen wollen, was aus dem Thema Digitalisierung auf sie zukommen kann und aus dem Thema KI zusätzlich auf sie zukommen wird.

Written from experience, this book simplifies the chaos — cutting through noise to help you focus on clarity, storytelling, and structure. Each chapter walks you through how to position yourself, build confidence, and think like a product leader. It even shows how to use AI as a co-pilot for faster prep, sharper insights, and better results.This playbook captures the frameworks, mindsets, and lessons she wishes she had when starting her own PM interview journey.

Professionals require tools to perform their jobs effectively. Product designers, Salespeople, Managers, and Software Developers all have tools. What about Software Architects?

In diesem Primer erklären wir Data Mesh aus der Engineering-Perspektive.

LLMs and agentic AI are currently generating a great deal of hype. When applied correctly, they can deliver tremendous benefits. This book outlines the challenges involved in implementing these technologies within large enterprises—particularly in regulated environments. It serves as an accessible introduction for IT-focused executives and enterprise architects, while also proving useful for IT professionals in general who wish to explore the subject and avoid common project pitfalls.

Most data modelling books teach you the craft. This one teaches you the reality. Seven chapters of honest, practical guidance from real project experience — covering conceptual modelling, governance, enterprise challenges, and the human side of data work that nobody else writes about.

What if time is not merely a clock, but a filter? What if systems fail not because they lack information, but because correction arrives too late to matter? What if technologies become dominant not because they are best, but because they have already reorganized the future around themselves? And what if Human–LLM collaboration is no longer just a sequence of prompts and answers, but an evolving ecology shaped by its own artifacts? Force–Information–Time: Essays on Structural Evolution is a companion volume to the FIT framework. Rather than restating the core theory, it explores what becomes visible when structural thinking is carried across learning, institutions, science, technology, Human–LLM collaboration, and human life.

‘Grip op data’ biedt een kennismaking met data gedreven werken, data management, databases en SQL. Het wordt aangeboden als combinatiepakket: dit leerboek, een online cursusomgeving en een databank met voorbeelden van datatoepassingen, datamodellen en data gedreven werkwijzen.