Govern Agility: Don't Apply Governance to Your Agile Apply Agility to Your Governance!

by Govern Agility, Phil Gadzinski, Tony Ponton

It's the Age of Agile, but many are now asking why they aren't getting the promised results.

You can spend millions training teams in agile approaches, but without changes to the structuring governance of broader management, success is elusive because the new way of working clashes with the old.

Govern Agility tackles this challenge within its Five Conductive Leadership, Sensible Transparency, Patterns of Work, Data-Driven Reasoning, and Humanity.

238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 26, 2024

Reviews

[Stephan Carstens · Rating 5 out of 5]

More and more I get the impression that Australia is the link between Western competive thinking and Eastern focus on Mastery - especially in the highly emotional world of (Business) Agility.
Govern Agility fits very well into this approach by combining a lot of different influences into a set of basic principles - or stanchions - to get governance out of the musty and dusty corner of being the Keepers of everything ring binder oriented.
Love it.

[Carla Billeci · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for anyone wondering how to improve their governance model

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tony and Phil are veterans and take a modern approach to how you govern in modern contexts, using agile values and principles with how investments and delivery occur.

Complexity is also well covered in addition to modern visual controls like Obeyas. I would have liked a lot more on Obeyas person ally but it is refreshing to read about this topic by people who have been in the trenches getting their hands dirty with clients.