High velocity, virtue and values
Mark Smalley at All The Talks 2020 - DevOps
Every generation claims that things happen faster than they used to. This certainly applies to IT – witness the effort that has gone into applying Lean, Agile and DevOps principles to achieve high-velocity IT.
Like most people with a grasp of science know, velocity is not only about speed but also about direction. Translated into the organisational context, direction means doing the right things quickly.
Given the unprecedented societal, political, and economic impact of IT, digitally-enabled organizations have an increasingly strong moral obligation to consider how they apply IT, beyond their direct economic interests. Just as organisations track their cash flow, they should also monitor the flow of virtue through the organisation – are they making the right choices?
This talk explores the moral responsibility that practitioners bear, and the role of education and personal values.
It is based on the book High-velocity IT and is explored briefly in this article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/high-velocity-virtue-values-mark-smalley/.
Takeaways
- Be more aware of the unprecedented societal, political, and economic impact of your work
- Realise that you are morally responsible for your actions including unintended consequences
- Understand that ethics is influences by education and by personal values
- Think about the value of diversity of values within organisations
Mark Smalley
Mark Smalley, also known as The IT Paradigmologist, thinks, writes and speaks extensively about IT 'paradigms' – in other words our changing perspectives on IT. His current interests are the digital enterprise, IT operating models, value of IT, business-IT relationships, co-creation of value, multidisciplinary collaboration, working with complexity, and as the overarching theme, management of information systems in general. Mark is an IT Management Consultant at Smalley.IT and Delivery Partner for GamingWorks' The Phoenix Project DevOps business simulation. He is a contributor to many bodies of industry knowledge. Mark has lectured at various universities and has spoken at hundreds of events in more than thirty countries.
More on https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksmalley/
Like most people with a grasp of science know, velocity is not only about speed but also about direction. Translated into the organisational context, direction means doing the right things quickly.
Given the unprecedented societal, political, and economic impact of IT, digitally-enabled organizations have an increasingly strong moral obligation to consider how they apply IT, beyond their direct economic interests. Just as organisations track their cash flow, they should also monitor the flow of virtue through the organisation – are they making the right choices?
This talk explores the moral responsibility that practitioners bear, and the role of education and personal values.
It is based on the book High-velocity IT and is explored briefly in this article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/high-velocity-virtue-values-mark-smalley/.
Takeaways
- Be more aware of the unprecedented societal, political, and economic impact of your work
- Realise that you are morally responsible for your actions including unintended consequences
- Understand that ethics is influences by education and by personal values
- Think about the value of diversity of values within organisations
Mark Smalley
Mark Smalley, also known as The IT Paradigmologist, thinks, writes and speaks extensively about IT 'paradigms' – in other words our changing perspectives on IT. His current interests are the digital enterprise, IT operating models, value of IT, business-IT relationships, co-creation of value, multidisciplinary collaboration, working with complexity, and as the overarching theme, management of information systems in general. Mark is an IT Management Consultant at Smalley.IT and Delivery Partner for GamingWorks' The Phoenix Project DevOps business simulation. He is a contributor to many bodies of industry knowledge. Mark has lectured at various universities and has spoken at hundreds of events in more than thirty countries.
More on https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksmalley/