Agile for Everybody. Creating Fast, Flexible, and Customer-First Organizations - Helion
ISBN: 978-14-920-3346-2
stron: 154, Format: ebook
Data wydania: 2018-10-10
Księgarnia: Helion
Cena książki: 101,15 zł (poprzednio: 117,62 zł)
Oszczędzasz: 14% (-16,47 zł)
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
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Spis treści
Agile for Everybody. Creating Fast, Flexible, and Customer-First Organizations eBook -- spis treści
- Introduction
- My Introduction to Agile: Twice the Work in Half the Time
- The Alchemy of Agile: Uniting Principles and Practices
- Why Agile for Everybody?
- Who This Book Is For
- How I Wrote This Book
- How This Book Is Organized
- Agile Guiding Principles (Why)
- Agile Practice Quick Wins and Deep Dives (How)
- Success Signals and Warning Signs (What)
- Your Agile Playbook
- Acknowledgments
- 1. What Is Agile, and Why Does It Matter?
- Understanding Agile as a Movement
- Unpacking the Appeal of Agile
- Escaping Business as Usual
- Agile Versus Waterfall
- Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking
- Summary: Agile Made Simple (But Not Easy)
- 2. Finding Your North Star
- Escaping the Frameworks Trap
- Making It Count: Establishing Your Goals and Challenges
- Making It Your Own: Agile Principles and Values to Drive Change
- Summary: Agile Beyond the Frameworks Trap
- 3. Agile Means That We Start with Our Customers
- Escaping the First Law of Organizational Gravity
- Seeing Speed from the Customers Point of View
- Beyond Working Software
- Agile Practice Deep Dive: Working in Sprints
- Quick Wins to Put This Principle into Practice
- You Might Be on the Right Track If:
- Your customers are surprising you
- Organizational and team leaders are asking customer-centric questions in meetings
- You are incorporating customer feedback into every step of your process, from initial idea through execution
- You Might Be Going Astray If:
- Direct interaction with customers is seen as low-status drudgeryor is outsourced
- New product or service ideas are framed as innovations or disruptions
- The only customer feedback that travels through the organization is positive customer feedback
- The progress of your Agile journey is measured only by operational metrics like adoption or velocity
- You Might Be on the Right Track If:
- Summary: Customers First!
- 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
- You Might Be on the Right Track If:
- People from different teams and functions are spending time together outside of formally scheduled, transactional meetings
- Collaboration is taking place around upstream strategy as well as downstream tactics
- Nobody can really remember whose idea that was in the first place
- Anybody on your team can take a sick day without work grinding to a halt
- You Might Be Going Astray If:
- Your meetings feel like elementary school book reports
- Everything shared between teams is finished and polished
- Your inbox is full of requests for asynchronous feedback
- You Might Be on the Right Track If:
- Summary: Building a Culture of Collaboration
- 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
- You Might Be on the Right Track If:
- You and your team feel a little bit uncertain and out of your depth most of the time
- You are regularly killing off projects that are not creating value for your customers
- When specific Agile practices are not working for your team, you work together to change them
- You Might Be Going Astray If:
- Your organization demands 100% certainty before committing to a decision
- You are withholding important information until the next yearly planning or budgeting meeting
- You are working a certain way because its Agileand thats it
- You Might Be on the Right Track If:
- 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
- Leadership in the Agile Organization
- Scaling Agile Across Teams and Functions
- A Story to Bring It All Together: Enterprise Design Thinking at IBM
- Agile Practice Deep Dive: WHPI (Why, How, Prototype, Iterate)
- Step 1: Why
- Step 2: How
- Step 3: Prototype
- Step 4: Iterate
- Some Notes on WHPI in Practice
- Quick Wins to Put These Principles into Practice
- You Might Be on the Right Track If:
- Team and company leaders are changing their behavior
- Agile is accessible to everybody
- Your team is experimenting with its own Agile practices
- You Might Be Going Astray If:
- Agile is for some thingsbut not the most important things
- Teams and individuals with more Agile experience are chastising others for doing it wrong
- Agile adoption is seen as an all-or-nothing proposition
- You Might Be on the Right Track If:
- Summary: Bringing It All Together
- 7. Your Agile Playbook
- Step 1: Setting Your Context
- Step 2: Creating Your North Star
- Step 3: Committing to a First Step, Measuring Success
- Step 4: Now Its Up to You!
- Summary: Say Something, Do Something!
- Conclusion
- Rediscovering the Human Heart of the Agile Movement
- A. Contributors
- B. Continued Reading
- Index