The document discusses the Renaissance as a transformative period bridging the Middle Ages and modern history, characterized by humanism, cultural innovation, and educational reform. It draws parallels to an 'IT Renaissance' which emphasizes new ideas, a new IT culture, and new methodologies. Key concepts include increased reliance on observation, empowering teams, and adopting modern IT practices such as automation and continuous delivery.

1. The IT Renaissance
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2. The Renaissance The Renaissance is a period
considered the bridge
between the Middle Ages
and modern history. It
started as a cultural
movement. The intellectual
basis was humanism, that
"Man is the measure of all
things."

3. The Renaissance It encompassed an
innovative flowering
of literatures,
beginning with the
resurgence of learning
based on classical
sources; the
development of
techniques of
rendering a more
natural reality; and
gradual but
widespread
educational reform.

4. The Renaissance It contributed to an
increased reliance on
observation and
inductive reasoning… as
well as social and
political upheaval.

5. The Renaissance
• New ideas
• A new culture
• New way of
thinking
• A new
beginning

6. The IT Renaissance
• New ideas
• A new IT
culture
• A new way of
doing IT
• A new
beginning

7. New ideas
• BYOD
• Cloud
• Shadow IT
• Agile, Lean IT, ToC
• The Three Ways
• Managing complexity
• Anti-fragile
• The Simian Army
• Agile service management

8. A new IT culture
• He Tangata
• Empowerment
• Honour the professional
• People over process
• Respect and faith
• Humane IT
• Loss of cynicism
• Teamwork and sharing

9. A new way of
doing IT
• Aggregation, SIAM
• Customer IT
• Infrastructure as code
• Automation
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Toolsmiths

10. A new beginning
• Rediscovering the classics:
Deming, Goldratt,
Snowden…
• Starting anew, building on
the old
• New language, new
mindset
• Challenging, creative
destruction
• Positivity
• Breaking the logjam

11. The IT Renaissance The Renaissance is a period
considered the bridge
between the Middle Ages
and modern history. It
started as a cultural
movement. The intellectual
basis was humanism, that
"Man is the measure of all
things."

12. The IT Renaissance It encompassed an
innovative flowering
of literatures,
beginning with the
resurgence of learning
based on classical
sources; the
development of
techniques of
rendering a more
natural reality; and
gradual but
widespread
educational reform.

13. The IT Renaissance It contributed to an
increased reliance on
observation and
inductive reasoning… as
well as social and
political upheaval.

14. The IT Renaissance
• New way of
doing IT
• New ideas
• A new IT
culture
• A new
beginning
Rob England
The IT Skeptic
www.itskeptic.org
@theitskeptic