[PDF] Essentials Of Agile Transformation eBook

Author : Urmila Kandha
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1642499935

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Essentials of Agile Transformation is your roadmap to successfully transforming your organization to an Agile culture. Veteran agile coach Urmila Kandha shares her perspectives with you on what are the crucial elements of an agile transformation. Focussing on the cultural transformation will help you bridge the chasm between doing agile and being agile. Who should read this book? ü Practitioners, Project Managers or Transition Managers struggling to transition to Agile ü Startup enthusiasts who want to stay nimble and deliver accelerated business value ü CXOs struggling to establish an Agile culture ü Anyone who needs tried and tested tips and proven techniques from practitioners, coaches and industry veterans on transformation to help them boost their efforts to transform What’s inside? • Tete a tete with 7 Industry Veterans on Agile Transformation • Leadership Behaviours for Transformation Success, Mindset Transformation, Nurturing High Performance Teams, Choice of Frameworks, Strategizing Agility at Scale and much more Read on to make Agility the new normal of your organization!

Author : Michael Sahota
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1105735729

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This book provides a set of essential thinking tools for understanding Agile adoption and transformation: how they differ and what you need to know to avoid being another statistic in the widespread adoption failure. In particular, you will learn how to use culture to work more effectively with your organization. It is called a survival guide since so many people have found the concepts to be invaluable in understanding their experiences when working with Agile. This book includes: Identification of causes of the widespread Agile adoption failure A model for understanding Agile, Kanban, and Software Craftsmanship culture An outline of key adoption and transformation approaches A framework to help guide when to use these these approaches with your organization Real-life case studies of what has worked and what hasn'

Author : Cliff Berg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119799279

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Agile is broken. Most Agile transformations struggle. According to an Allied Market Research study, "63% of respondents stated the failure of agile implementation in their organizations." The problems with Agile start at the top of most organizations with executive leadership not getting what agile is or even knowing the difference between success and failure in agile. Agile transformation is a journey, and most of that journey consists of people learning and trying new approaches in their own work. An agile organization can make use of coaches and training to improve their chances of success. But even then, failure remains because many Agile ideas are oversimplifications or interpreted in an extreme way, and many elements essential for success are missing. Coupled with other ideas that have been dogmatically forced on teams, such as "agile team rooms", and "an overall inertia and resistance to change in the Agile community," the Agile movement is ripe for change since its birth twenty years ago. "Agile 2" represents the work of fifteen experienced Agile experts, distilled into Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile by seven members of the team. Agile 2 values these pairs of attributes when properly balanced: thoughtfulness and prescription; outcomes and outputs, individuals and teams; business and technical understanding; individual empowerment and good leadership; adaptability and planning. With a new set of Agile principles to take Agile forward over the next 20 years, Agile 2 is applicable beyond software and hardware to all parts of an agile organization including "Agile HR", "Agile Finance", and so on. Like the original "Agile", "Agile 2", is just a set of ideas - powerful ideas. To undertake any endeavor, a single set of ideas is not enough. But a single set of ideas can be a powerful guide.

Author : Darrell Rigby
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1633698718

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Agile has the power to transform work--but only if it's implemented the right way. For decades business leaders have been painfully aware of a huge chasm: They aspire to create nimble, flexible enterprises. But their day-to-day reality is silos, sluggish processes, and stalled innovation. Today, agile is hailed as the essential bridge across this chasm, with the potential to transform a company and catapult it to the head of the pack. Not so fast. In this clear-eyed, indispensable book, Bain & Company thought leader Darrell Rigby and his colleagues Sarah Elk and Steve Berez provide a much-needed reality check. They dispel the myths and misconceptions that have accompanied agile's rise to prominence--the idea that it can reshape an organization all at once, for instance, or that it should be used in every function and for all types of work. They illustrate that agile teams can indeed be powerful, making people's jobs more rewarding and turbocharging innovation, but such results are possible only if the method is fully understood and implemented the right way. The key, they argue, is balance. Every organization must optimize and tightly control some of its operations, and at the same time innovate. Agile, done well, enables vigorous innovation without sacrificing the efficiency and reliability essential to traditional operations. The authors break down how agile really works, show what not to do, and explain the crucial importance of scaling agile properly in order to reap its full benefit. They then lay out a road map for leading the transition to a truly agile enterprise. Agile isn't a goal in itself; it's a means to becoming a high-performance operation. Doing Agile Right is a must-have guide for any company trying to make the transition--or trying to sustain high agility.

Author : Kenneth S. Rubin
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0137043295

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This is a comprehensive guide to Scrum for all (team members, managers, and executives). If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, this is the complete, single-source reference you've been searching for. This book provides a common understanding of Scrum, a shared vocabulary that can be used in applying it, and practical knowledge for deriving maximum value from it.

Author : Neil Perkin
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749480408

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Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation is an in-depth look at transforming businesses so they are fit for purpose in a digitally enabled world. It is a guide for all those needing to better understand, implement and lead digital transformation in the workplace. It sets aside traditional thinking and outdated strategies to explain what steps need to be taken for an organization to become truly agile. It addresses how to build organizational velocity and establish iterative working, remove unnecessary process, embed innovation, map strategy to motivation and develop talent to succeed. Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation provides guidance on how to set the pace and frequency for change and shows how to break old habits and reform the behaviours of a workforce to embed digital transformation, achieve organizational agility and ensure high performance. Full of practical advice, examples and real-life insights from organizational development professionals at the leading edge of digital transformation, this book is an essential guide to building an agile business.

Author : Gary Gruver
Publisher : IT Revolution
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1942788029

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Software is becoming more and more important across a broad range of industries, yet most technology executives struggle to deliver software improvements their businesses require. Leading-edge companies like Amazon and Google are applying DevOps and Agile principles to deliver large software projects faster than anyone thought possible. But most executives don't understand how to transform their current legacy systems and processes to scale these principles across their organizations. Leading the Transformation is executive guide, providing a clear framework for improving development and delivery. Instead of the traditional Agile and DevOps approaches that focus on improving the effectiveness of teams, this book targets the coordination of work across teams in large organizations—an improvement that executives are uniquely positioned to lead.

Author : Michael K. Spayd
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0133137376

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Lead Agile Transformations that Scale and Succeed across the Entire Organization Most organizational leaders know agility is paramount to survival in a world of unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). This is why so many keep attempting Agile transformations even after previous initiatives have failed. But the truth is, both organizations and leaders need new ways of thinking--they need to upgrade their organizational “operating system.” Built on the proven Integral Agile Transformation FrameworkTM (IATF), Agile Transformation offers a fresh perspective and systemic approach that can operate on all levels, from individual to enterprise. Learn how to use IATF to combine what you know subjectively (“heart”) with what you can measure objectively (“data”). Even if you are already using leadership or culture models, scaled frameworks, or other techniques, IATF helps you place them in context, overcome their limitations, and gain more value from them. As it has in many other organizations, IATF can help you become an authentic Transformational Leader and finally build an organization that is truly Agile. Gain crucial new perspective for leading your Agile transformation: insight into your world, organization, work, and yourself Understand what your current Agile methods do and don't do, how they interact or conflict, and where you need something more Structure existing models and frameworks into an understandable meta-framework Master a unified and practical system for mapping what's going on and what needs to change Discover practical ways to successfully lead both human and organizational aspects of change Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Author : Alexandra Stokes
Publisher : Agily Pty Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 064687845X

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To be adaptive and thrive in a world of accelerating change, your organisation must attain the ability to Transform. ~ Alexandra Stokes, co-founder of ReBoot Co. About the Book Most Agile Transformations fail because there is a 10-20 year knowledge gap in the leaders that run companies that need transforming. Most C-suite leaders have never worked in Agile teams themselves. As a result, they reach for the wrong tools and fall into the consulting trap by investing in large consultancies and trademarked™ "one size fits all" Framework approaches. That is a recipe for expensive failure. In Empowered Agile Transformation - Beyond the Framework author Alexandra Stokes reveals how corporations both large and small have achieved a successful transformation without large consultancies or heavy Agile frameworks. Better yet, you'll discover the simple steps you can begin taking today that will empower you to achieve successful transformation as well. Inside these pages you'll also find: Answers to over 100 of the most commonly asked questions and objections corporate leaders have when trying to transform 30 "real world" cases studies from companies that have used the principles inside Empowered Agile Transformation to radically transform their organisations The simple approach you can apply to your own teams to experience success without heavy frameworks About the Author Alexandra Stokes is a speaker, author and the co-founder of Reboot Co., which helps companies of every size to achieve the transformation they need to drive greater success. To learn more visit: Rebootco.com.au

Author : Alan Shalloway
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0321700430

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Agile has become today’s dominant software development paradigm, but agile methods remain difficult to measure and improve. Essential Skills for the Agile Developer fills this gap from the bottom up, teaching proven techniques for assessing and optimizing both individual and team agile practices. Written by four principals of Net Objectives—one of the world’s leading agile training and consulting firms—this book reflects their unsurpassed experience helping organizations transition to agile. It focuses on the specific actions and insights that can deliver the greatest design and programming improvements with economical investment. The authors reveal key factors associated with successful agile projects and offer practical ways to measure them. Through actual examples, they address principles, attitudes, habits, technical practices, and design considerations—and above all, show how to bring all these together to deliver higher-value software. Using the authors’ techniques, managers and teams can optimize the whole organization and the whole product across its entire lifecycle. Essential Skills for the Agile Developer shows how to Perform programming by intention Separate use from construction Consider testability before writing code Avoid over- and under-design Succeed with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) Minimize complexity and rework Use encapsulation more effectively and systematically Know when and how to use inheritance Prepare for change more successfully Perform continuous integration more successfully Master powerful best practices for design and refactoring