Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility

Chapter 1. Enterprise Agility

The agile movement has made enormous strides in the last decade, greatly improving software delivery and creating more satisfactory work environments in many organizations. The next horizon is extending agility from basic software delivery to continuous delivery and into the business itself, utilizing the advances in delivering software features early and often into a transformation of businesses to deliver complete solutions early and often. The drivers for this trend, as we will see, come from a growing focus of chief executive officers (CEOs) on trying to survive and thrive in a world of growing complexity, uncertainty, and fast-moving competition. Achieving enterprise agility, however, requires a different style ...