Book description
The Agile movement provides real, actionable answers to the question that keeps many company leaders awake at night: How do we stay successful in a fast-changing and unpredictable world? Agile has already transformed how modern companies build and deliver software. This practical book demonstrates how entire organizations—from product managers and engineers to marketers and executives—can put Agile to work.
Author Matt LeMay explains Agile in clear, jargon-free terms and provides concrete and actionable steps to help any team put its values and principles into practice. Examples from a wide variety of organizations, including small nonprofits and global financial enterprises, bring to life the on-the-ground realities of Agile across industries and functions.
- Understand exactly what Agile is and why it matters
- Use Agile to address your organization’s specific needs and goals
- Take customer centricity from theory into practice
- Stop wasting time in "report and critique" meetings and start making better decisions
- Create a harmonious cycle of learning, collaborating, and delivering
- Learn from Agile experts at companies like IBM, Spotify, and Coca-Cola
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Introduction
- 1. What Is Agile, and Why Does It Matter?
- 2. Finding Your North Star
- 3. Agile Means That We Start with Our Customers
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4. Agile Means That We Collaborate Early and Often
- Escaping the Second Law of Organizational Gravity
- Moving from a Report and Critique Culture to a Collaborative Culture
- The Room Where It Happens
- Making Connections to “Scout and Scale”
- Agile Practice Deep Dive: The Daily Stand-Up
- Quick Wins to Put This Principle into Practice
- Summary: Building a Culture of Collaboration
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5. Agile Means That We Plan for Uncertainty
- Escaping the Third Law of Organizational Gravity
- The Paradox of Agile: Using Structure to Achieve Flexibility
- The Double-Edged Sword of Experimentation
- Agile Is Uncertain, Too
- Agile Practice Deep Dive: The Retrospective
- Quick Wins to Put This Principle into Practice
- Summary: Change Is Good, If You Want It
- 6. Agile Means That We Follow All Three of These Guiding Principles to Be Fast, Flexible, and Customer-First
- 7. Your Agile Playbook
- A. Contributors
- B. Continued Reading
- Index
Product information
- Title: Agile for Everybody
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2018
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781492033516
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