© Mario E. Moreira 2017

Mario E. Moreira, The Agile Enterprise, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2391-8_1

1. Getting Started

Mario E. Moreira

(1)Winchester, Massachusetts, USA

An Agile enterprise has Agile occurring end-to-end and top-to-bottom.

—Mario Moreira

Imagine an enterprise where everyone focuses on the highest customer value, an enterprise that methodically yet quickly adapts toward high value and cuts the tail of lower-value work.

Imagine a company where employees are trusted to use 100% of their brain power to self-organize around the work and think of better ways to work, a company where employee satisfaction comes from within the employees themselves for a job well done.

Imagine an organization where ideas—from strategies to tasks—are transparent so ...

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