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The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations
Discover how to implement and operate in an Agile manner at every level of your enterprise and at every point from idea to delivery. Learn how Agile-mature organizations adapt nimbly to microchanges in market conditions. Learn cutting-edge practices and concepts as you extend your implementation of Agile through the entire enterprise to meet customer needs.
Veteran Agile coach Mario Moreira argues that two critical conditions must be conscientiously cultivated at a company before it can expect to reap in full measure the business benefits of mature Agile. First, individuals at every level must be committed to the mindset and the implementation of practices rigorously focused on delivering value to the customer. Second, all employees must be empowered to take ownership. This holistic transformation wrenches the status quo and provokes a strong focus where customers and employees matter.
What You'll Learn
Establish an idea pipeline to quickly and productively evolve customer value through all levels of the enterpriseIncorporate a discovery mindset—experimental, incremental, design, and divergent thinking—and fast feedback loops to increase the odds that what you build aligns more closely to what customer wantsLeverage Lean Canvas, personas, story mapping, value stream mapping, Cost of Delay, servant leadership, self-organization, and more to deliver optimum value to customersUse continuous agile budgeting and idea pipelines at the senior levels of the enterprise to enable you to adapt to the speed of the marketReinvent human resources, portfolio management, finance, and many areas of management toward new roles in the enablement of customer valueMap a top-to-bottom and end-to-end holistic view of your Agile galaxy to gauge where you are today and where you’d like to go in your Agile futureBe truly Agile throughout your enterprise, focused on customer value and employees above all elseWho This Book Is ForExecutives and senior management; sponsors of Agile within a company; ScrumMasters and Agile coaches, champions, and consultants; project management and quality assurance officers (PMOs and AMOs); portfolio managers; product managers and product owners; marketing and business managers; functional, middle, and resource managers; engineering heads and managers; cross-functional engineering/scrum teams; and entrepreneurs and venture capitalists
Veteran Agile coach Mario Moreira argues that two critical conditions must be conscientiously cultivated at a company before it can expect to reap in full measure the business benefits of mature Agile. First, individuals at every level must be committed to the mindset and the implementation of practices rigorously focused on delivering value to the customer. Second, all employees must be empowered to take ownership. This holistic transformation wrenches the status quo and provokes a strong focus where customers and employees matter.
What You'll Learn
Establish an idea pipeline to quickly and productively evolve customer value through all levels of the enterpriseIncorporate a discovery mindset—experimental, incremental, design, and divergent thinking—and fast feedback loops to increase the odds that what you build aligns more closely to what customer wantsLeverage Lean Canvas, personas, story mapping, value stream mapping, Cost of Delay, servant leadership, self-organization, and more to deliver optimum value to customersUse continuous agile budgeting and idea pipelines at the senior levels of the enterprise to enable you to adapt to the speed of the marketReinvent human resources, portfolio management, finance, and many areas of management toward new roles in the enablement of customer valueMap a top-to-bottom and end-to-end holistic view of your Agile galaxy to gauge where you are today and where you’d like to go in your Agile futureBe truly Agile throughout your enterprise, focused on customer value and employees above all elseWho This Book Is ForExecutives and senior management; sponsors of Agile within a company; ScrumMasters and Agile coaches, champions, and consultants; project management and quality assurance officers (PMOs and AMOs); portfolio managers; product managers and product owners; marketing and business managers; functional, middle, and resource managers; engineering heads and managers; cross-functional engineering/scrum teams; and entrepreneurs and venture capitalists
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386 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 14, 2017
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November 6, 2019
A very good book on the topic of the Agile enterprise. Strong focus on values and mindset, good explanations of concepts, many many cool ideas, and exercises to try out. And even a detailed story of how one organization did it. I definitely recommend it!
June 23, 2018
Common sense, catchy words but missing pragmatism
The book is too long, often is repeating the same concept again and again. The author used always the same catchy words without really giving you tangible examples. Agile mindset is repeated in almost all chapters and still at the end you have only a high level definition and a vague sense of what means. More importantly this book still show strong limitation of Agile for enterprise. The focus is development of products, while in enterprises you have multiple functions like IT, FI, HR, logistics, procurement and etc that do not develop coder products by nature. The book is mostly focus on products and items related to customers, people who pay and choose for.
Overall a good initiative with a poor execution and still leaving tons of questions unanswered. Surely not recommended .
The book is too long, often is repeating the same concept again and again. The author used always the same catchy words without really giving you tangible examples. Agile mindset is repeated in almost all chapters and still at the end you have only a high level definition and a vague sense of what means. More importantly this book still show strong limitation of Agile for enterprise. The focus is development of products, while in enterprises you have multiple functions like IT, FI, HR, logistics, procurement and etc that do not develop coder products by nature. The book is mostly focus on products and items related to customers, people who pay and choose for.
Overall a good initiative with a poor execution and still leaving tons of questions unanswered. Surely not recommended .
February 2, 2018
Solid book. It gives great advise on which elements a change to a more „agile“ enterprise consists of. More importantly, it emphasis why an enterprise should invest in this in the first place: customer centric product development.
I found the chapters on Cost of Delay by Duration, Agile Budgeting and Agile Success Metrics to be the most well-presented.
This book doesn't change the world - most statements are obvious. But Mario Moreira curated them in a well thought through collection to draw a distinct image of an ideal agile enterprise.
I found the chapters on Cost of Delay by Duration, Agile Budgeting and Agile Success Metrics to be the most well-presented.
This book doesn't change the world - most statements are obvious. But Mario Moreira curated them in a well thought through collection to draw a distinct image of an ideal agile enterprise.
February 26, 2020
Great summary on a lot of very helpful topics like CoD and Requirement Trees, but at the end of the day getting any serious information on any of these topics requires other books and more research. For example the way they detail Agile budgeting is not enough to actually start using those methods. However, I am giving them 3 stars because they did do into more detail about HR departments than any book I have read so far. You can tell this was written by consultants who wanted to write a book without giving away everything. Also, they end up using a bunch of terms that are not used across the industry and probably just for their consulting company like Agile Galaxy.
May 18, 2020
A very good written book; I believe it is quite a good primer on the topic; the book touches and sometimes delves deeper into various concepts towards the Agile Enterprise theme; I liked most the chapter on HR, has been very well written, and goes into more depth towards the how to; which is lacking in most of the topics of the content; might be due to the nature of the writers; I am assuming here that they are in the consulting field, accordingly, might be reluctant to give away the cow in lieu of sharing some of the milk. Overall very good written and worth the time to read.
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