Potpourri
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Context 2
Context 3
Context 4
100

The four contexts of managing digital

What is Founder, Team, Team of Teams, Enterprise?

100

The application of digital technology to create additional business value within the primary value chain of enterprises

What is digitization?

100

The organizational structure within a business that manages the development, marketing, and sale of a product or set of products throughout the product lifecycle

What is Product Management?

100

The process of managing dependencies among activities.

What is Coordination?

100

GRC is an acronym for this function

What is Governance, Risk, and Compliance?

200
  • Work always flows in one direction – downstream.
  • Create, shorten and amplify feedback loops.
  • Continued experimentation, in order to learn from mistakes, and achieve mastery.

What are the three ways of DevOps?

200

This context represents the bare minimum requirements of delivering digital value.

What is Founder?

200

A way of understanding the end-to-end flow of value, typically in a manufacturing or supply chain operational context.

What is value stream mapping?

200

“a systematic series of actions directed to some end … a continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner”. (Dictionary.com)

What is a process?

200

In most enterprises, governance is their responsibility.

Who is the Board of Directors?

300

An industry standards body that manages standards like UNIX, TOGAF, IT4IT, and DPBOK

Who is the Open Group?

300

What an online system that a bank teller uses when interacting with a bank account holder is considered to be

What is a customer supporting system?

300

A term originating from Lean and the Toyota Production System. Originally, it signified a “pull” technique in which materials would only be transferred to a given workstation on a definite signal that the workstation required the materials.

What is Kanban?

300

the main hiring concerns of the digital enterprise

What is process as skill recruitment, and ability to allocate and tracking people’s time?

300

Systems that enable architecture data management

What is an Enterprise Architecture repository?

400
  • Locality and Simplicity.
  • Focus, Flow, and Joy.
  • Improvement of Daily Work.
  • Psychological Safety.
  • Customer Focus.

What are the five ideals from the unicorn project?

400

The type of cloud computing where the consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure, but has control over the deployed applications

What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

400

A form of contract between the service consumer and service provider, stating the above criteria in terms of a business agreement

What is a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?

400

The “ideal” number of transaction types for a manufacturing company within the production processes

What is two, the receipt of raw materials and the shipment of finished product?

400

The means by which new vendor and open source products are approved as fit-for-purpose and/or preferred within the organization.

What is Technology Lifecycle Management process?

500

The author of Managing Digital

Who is Charles Betz?

500

The matter of how artifacts under version control are combined with other IT resources (such as virtual machines) to deliver services

What is configuration management?

500

The practice of collecting and initiating responses to telemetry

What is monitoring?

500

This is a next generation IT Finance practice

What is Lean Accounting?

also acceptable

•Beyond Budgeting

•Internal “venture” funding

•Lean Product Development

•Value stream orientation

•Internal market economics

•Service brokerage

500

This competency adds value by improving efficiency, effectiveness, and optimizing risk.

What is information management?