January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
6h 37m
English
Overview
Today, organizations face significant pressure to rapidly innovate and respond to changing market demands, but many struggle to align engineering practices with overarching business goals. Agile and DevOps methodologies, often seen purely as technical solutions, can fail without proper alignment with executive-level expectations and objectives. Using a clear, actionable framework to effectively drive organizational change, this book addresses this critical gap by providing leaders with the tools and knowledge required to directly connect technical outputs to corporate strategy, ensuring development efforts consistently result in tangible business value.
Drawing on firsthand experiences in global enterprises, author Leo Bardelli demystifies Agile and DevOps methodologies, demonstrating how—when strategically implemented—they streamline processes, accelerate innovation, and deliver measurable impact that resonates with executives and board members alike. Structured around the most pressing pain points faced by senior managers and technical leaders, you’ll find essential topics such as maturity assessments, stakeholder engagement, strategic communication with executives, legacy system modernization, and effective risk management. Bardelli offers practical tools and actionable insights, including real-world templates, detailed case studies, maturity matrices, and KPIs tailored for clear communication with Board-level and executive stakeholders.
Unlike other technical guides that focus narrowly on engineering processes, Bridging the Gap uniquely blends technology and strategic business management, making, making these methodologies indispensable tools for sustained organizational growth and profitability.
What You Will Learn
- Create and run a maturity assessment for Agile and DevOps based on the stream value
- Merge the product needs at an engineering level
- Build and collect metrics and turn this data into storytelling.
- Articulate the value of Agile and DevOps in terms that executives and board members understand and appreciate
Who This Book Is For
Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, Product Owners, Heads of DevOps, Head of Engineering and product people responsible for multiple teams or projects who want to increase their strategic impact. It will also prove very helpful for the engineer who is in a position to step into management-level positions such as Team Lead or Manager, and who needs to understand more clearly how the technical decisions relate to the objectives of the greater business.
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