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Adoption of digital technology is complex and
challenging. But it isn't the technology that is most
likely to hinder digital transformation.

Q

uint Wellington Redwood, headquartered
in Amsterdam, is a global consulting and
advisory firm that helps companies solve
corporate IT management challenges in areas
such as Agile transformation, Lean IT and cloud
strategy and implementation. Maurice Boon,
who has led Quint since 2008, first as Managing
Director and then as CEO, talked with CIO
Straight Talk about what it takes to be a good
tech leader in 2019.

WHAT DO PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND
MOST OFTEN ABOUT LEADING
A TECHNOLOGY TEAM?
The fact that technology is not complex. It might
be difficult, but it's possible. The hard part is
getting people to build and manage it.

ISN'T IT LEADERSHIP GETTING EASIER,
NOW THAT COMPANIES ARE GETTING
MORE USED TO IT DEVELOPMENT?
No. Even in an Agile team or a DevOps team, the
level of discipline, the level of responsibility that
sits with the individual team member is much
higher than it used to be. There's no process to
hide behind, no organization that can take over.
You are responsible, and you really need to take
and feel that responsibility, together with your
team members.

Now DevOps is breaking down another big
wall, between development and operations,
which is good. But as we see more and more
movement from what's classified as operations
to development, we need to remember that in
the end, it's not an application that needs to be
built, it's a service that needs to be delivered. And
service is not a one-day or a one-week or a onemonth project. It's a long-term engagement.

WHY IS DEVOPS HARD TO GET RIGHT?
From an application development point of view,
it's easy to tell the IT operation's guys to open
up and allow for the development of some new
great idea. But from an IT operations point of
view, there's more to it than simply coming up

THE LEVEL OF
DISCIPLINE, THE LEVEL
OF RESPONSIBILITY THAT SITS
WITH THE INDIVIDUAL TEAM
MEMBER IS MUCH HIGHER THAN
IT USED TO BE. THERE'S NO PROCESS
TO HIDE BEHIND, NO
ORGANIZATION THAT
CAN TAKE OVER.

Agile helped to open up a dialog with business.
With Agile, the product owner is never a techie.
It's the business owner. So Agile brought IT closer
to the business and the business closer to IT.
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