Baseball has more in common with IT than you might think. As Yogi Berra says, "Sometimes you can observe a lot by just watching." In many ways, baseball is the original testbed for management theory and ideas. Like baseball, IT faces a host of often conflicting requirements. It's also important in both disciplines to establish and apply meaningful metrics, acquire and maintain a highly skilled staff, and produce immediately while building for an unpredictable future. Baseball management, like IT management, must  measure and analyze performance and master a competitive field where the talent is the product. IT managers must also possess the right skills, recruit the right people and maintain their knowledge. They need to adapt not only to the constant, often subtle changes that happen every day, but also to big changes that occur irregularly. But America's Pastime sometimes does it better: baseball goes by a set of guidelines called "The Book," while many IT organizations operate in a more rigid manner.

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