“This entertaining and deeply researched book is an essential guide for businesses that are evolving to adopt Agile and DevOps practices . . .” — Adrian Cockcroft, Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures

“The best writing on agile and business value I’ve read. Clear-thinking and practical.”

“Essential reading” “Inspiring”

“If you haven’t yet read “The Art of Business Value” by @schwartz_cio, you need to!”

“Long time since I was reading a book and thought “I need a highlighter”. Great work”

“The ideas presented are very relevant to me as a CIO and to all business leaders. Gave me new tools and methods to experiment with.”

“Recommended reading for anyone managing software products, including scrum product owners and senior technical delivery team members, but crucially also product managers and stakeholders, all the way up to the C level.”

“The book is lots of fun to read, and can mess with your brain”

“Great perspective on the elephant we all know exists. It’s Time for IT to step up!”

“This book exceeded my expectations. It opens your mind and breaks common-held myths.”

“If you want to better understand business value, you should read this book.”

“I highly recommend reading this book if you are at all wondering about what it means to deliver business value and why it matters, especially from the IT perspective.”

“I highly recommend this book to IT leaders, digital executives, strategic managers, and anyone seeking to make their organization more agile, effective, relevant, competitive and humane.”

“The Art of Business Value is a highly thought provoking book. Mr. Schwartz does not give us any easy answers, but challenges us to find business value in our own environments.”