Enterprise Release Management: Agile Delivery of a Strategic Change Portfolio; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Evolving Enterprise; 1.1 Enterprise 2.0; 1.1.1 Relentless Business Change; 1.1.2 A Necessary Management Synthesis; 1.2 Unifying Release Management; 1.2.1 Historical Context of the Release; 1.2.2 Release Management in Software and IT; 1.3 The Enterprise Perspective; 1.3.1 Overview of Enterprise Architecture; 1.3.2 Modeling the Enterprise; References; 2 Embracing Change and Complexity; 2.1 Wrestling with Change and Complexity; 2.1.1 Relentless Business Change.

2.1.2 Enterprise Complexity2.2 Managing Change and Complexity; 2.2.1 Change-Complexity Cycle; References; 3 The Enterprise Pattern; 3.1 Managing Enterprise Dynamics; 3.1.1 The Real Enterprise System; 3.1.2 Managing Change Dynamics; 3.2 Enterprise Release Planning; 3.2.1 Planning as Temporal Simplification; 3.2.2 Enterprise Cohesion; References; 4 The Project Paradigm; 4.1 The Project Construct; 4.1.1 The Changing Project Definition; 4.1.2 The PM Practice; 4.2 Projects in the Enterprise; 4.2.1 The Project Culture; References; 5 Release-Centric Planning and Design.

5.1Enterprise Change Governance5.1.1 The Enterprise Change Portfolio; 5.2 Planning the Portfolio Release; 5.2.1 Enterprise Release Logistics; 5.2.2 Establishing Release Coherence; References; 6 Delivering the Enterprise Release; 6.1 Strategy and the Alignment Trap; 6.1.1 Opportunities and Traps; 6.1.2 Downstream Release Governance; 6.2 Assessing Delivery Patterns; 6.2.1 The Customer-Supplier Relationship; References; 7 The Enterprise Release Paradigm; 7.1 Generalizing the Release; 7.1.1 Introducing the Release Matrix; 7.1.2 Resolving Enterprise Multiplicity.

7.1.3 Managing with the Release MatrixReferences; 8The Enterprise Release Life Cycle; 8.1 Delivery Life Cycles: Past and Present; 8.1.1 Traditional Life Cycle Models; 8.2 The Enterprise Life Cycle; 8.2.1 Animating the Enterprise Pattern; 8.3 Strategic Enterprise Planning; 8.3.1 The Enterprise Roadmap; References:; 9 Practicing Enterprise Release Management; 9.1 ERM as a Unifying Approach; 9.1.1 The Applicability of ERM; 9.1.2 Time for a New Paradigm; 9.2 Adopting ERM Practices; 9.2.1 Implementing ERM; References; About the Author; Index.