Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal — Fall 2025

Volume 2, Issue 2

I love that the outputs generated by the IT Revolution site are not opinion papers based on feelings. They are grounded in reality with metrics, measurables, and actionable content. This is not marketing material built to look shiny on a slide, or a judgement on the state of technology based on a few opinionated writers. All of the content I've encountered is real, valuable, and verifiable. The piece from the ETLJ Fall 2025 paper that I enjoyed most was "A Nose for Elevating New Technology Leaders". The visual map for key leadership characteristics to predictive indicators is incredible.

Dave Abraham, Software Developer - IT

The Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal Fall 2025 presents ten comprehensive papers addressing the most pressing challenges facing technology leaders in an AI-driven world. This collection emerges from the 2025 Enterprise Technology Leadership Forum, where leaders from Fortune 500 companies shared real-world experiences navigating AI transformation, scaling delivery systems, and building resilient organizations. Each paper provides actionable frameworks grounded in practical implementation experience across diverse industries.

This issue covers critical topics including identifying and developing technology leadership talent in an AI-augmented world, implementing software acquisition pathways that avoid bureaucratic sabotage, navigating strategic trade-offs between speed, cost, and safety, adapting career strategies for the evolving developer job market, guiding organizational transformation through AI adoption, managing human-AI interactions in safety-critical systems, learning from enterprise-scale generative AI implementations, handling the operational challenges of AI-assisted development, reimagining quality assurance for the age of rapid code generation, and optimizing the software delivery pipeline from pull request to production.

What's inside

  • Proven Frameworks — Strategic guidance tested by industries around the world.
  • AI Integration — Practical approaches to enterprise AI transformation
  • Risk Mitigation — Evidence-based strategies for technology implementation challenges
  • Leadership Development — Actionable insights for growing technology talent
Pages
350
Topics
Journal
Formats
epub · pdf
License
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

In this issue

  1. A Nose for Elevating Techology Leaders: Evaluating Talent for Next-Level Leaders in the Age of AI

    Kent Beck (Thinkies), JD Black (Northrop Grumman), Alana Henley (Northrop Grumman), Clare Hawthorne (Datavant), JP Herald & Max Reele (Rise8)

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  3. Faster, Cheaper, and Safer: Finding the Balance

    Adrian Cockcroft (OrionX.net), Tapabrata Pal (Fidelity Investments), Randy Shoup (Thrive Market), Cat Swetel (Nubank), Mik Kersten (Planview) & Buck Butler (Southwest Airlines)

    85
  4. Human Vibes: How Developers Can Navigate a Job Market That’s Stretching at Both Ends

    Matt Beane, Jonathan Hassell (O’Reilly Media), Brendan Hopper (Commonwealth Bank of Australia) & Steve Yegge (Sourcegraph)

    112
  5. Lead for the Long Game: A Guide for Disruptors and Their Enablers

    Joe Beutler (OpenAI), Amy Willard (John Deere), Chris Blackburn (Liatrio), Michelle Gill (GitLab) & Ben Grinnell (Xlr8 Consulting)

    139
  6. Leading the Human–AI Revolution: Strategic Leadership Guidance for Effective Human-AI Interactions for Development and Operations of Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems

    Suzette Johnson (Northrop Grumman), Robin Yeman (Leidos), Steve Wilson (Exabeam; OWASP GenAI Security Project), Kim Harrison (Heroku) & Christine Hudson (The Welcome Elephant)

    160
  7. Lessons from Enterprise GenAI Adoption Journeys

    Jason Cox (Disney), Brian Scott (Adobe), Jason Clinton (Anthropic), Adam Zimman & Jeff Gallimore (Excella)

    226
  8. “No Vibe Coding While I’m On Call!”: A Story of Generative AI and its Impact across the SDLC

    Cornelia Davis (Temporal Technologies), Nathen Harvey (Google Cloud), Gene Kim (IT Revolution), Matt Ring (John Deere) & Jessie Young (GitLab)

    273
  9. Revenge of QA: The Age of AI is the Age of Verification & Validation

    Elisabeth Hendrickson (Curious Duck Digital Laboratory), Jeffrey Fredrick (Reflect Adapt Ltd.), Joseph Enochs (EVT), John Willis (Botchagalupe Technologies) & Kamran Kazempour (Apple)

    309
  10. Unclogging the Drain: Clearing Obstacles in the Value Stream from PR to Production

    Christina Yakomin (Vanguard) & Robbie Daitzman (Vanguard)

    328