Book description
Manage and improve your organization's agile transformationAdopting an enterprise agile framework is a radical organizational change, and this book will help you get there without ever breaking a sweat. In Enterprise Agility For Dummies, you'll discover how to successfully choose and implement the right framework based on your organization's own unique culture.
Organizational culture is one of the most overlooked challenges when trying to make a change to enterprise agile, and there are lots of resources out there that claim to have the perfect, one-size-fits-all solution. Luckily, this book takes a neutral stance and covers popular organizational change management techniques that you can implement to suit to your unique needs. Packed with step-by-step instruction and complemented with real-world case studies, this book offers everything you need to know in order to embrace a more agile mindset.
- Understand the benefits of an agile approach
- Pick the best enterprise agile framework for your organization
- Create a successful enterprise change management plan
Let Enterprise Agility For Dummies help you optimize your business processes, and watch your productivity soar.
Table of contents
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- Cover
- Introduction
- Part 1: Getting Started with Enterprise Agility
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Part 2: Reviewing the Top Enterprise Agile Frameworks
- Chapter 4: Joining the Big Leagues with the Scaled Agile Framework
- Chapter 5: Growing Scrum with Large-Scale Scrum
- Chapter 6: Making Process Decisions with Disciplined Agile Delivery
- Chapter 7: Working in Tribes with the Spotify Engineering Culture
- Chapter 8: Improving Workflow and Eliminating Waste with Kanban and Lean
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Part 3: Leading a Large-Scale Organizational Change
- Chapter 9: Sizing Up Your Organization
- Chapter 10: Driving Organizational Change
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Chapter 11: Putting It All Together: Ten Steps to an Agile Enterprise
- Step 1: Identifying Your Organization’s Culture
- Step 2: Listing the Strengths and Challenges with Changing Your Culture
- Step 3: Selecting the Best Approach to Organizational Change Management
- Step 4: Training Managers on Lean Thinking
- Step 5: Starting a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)
- Step 6: Choosing a High-Level Value Stream
- Step 7: Assigning a Budget to the Value Stream
- Step 8: Selecting an Enterprise Agile Framework
- Step 9: Shifting from Detailed Plans to Epics
- Step 10: Respecting and Trusting Your People
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Part 4: The Part of Tens
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Chapter 12: Ten Reasons Enterprise Agile Transformations Fail
- The Organization’s Culture Clashes with Agile Values
- Teams Aren’t Interested in Making Changes
- Executive Support Is Lacking
- The Proposed Change Is Too Radical
- The Customer Won’t Cooperate
- Leadership Refuses to Invest in Training
- The Developers Insist on Requirements
- Each Team Wants to Do Its Own Thing
- Nobody Has a Plan to Measure Improvements
- The Functional Areas Are Too Deeply Entrenched
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Chapter 13: Ten Tips for Overcoming Common Obstacles
- Develop a Clear Roadmap
- Find Support at the Top
- Set Realistic Expectations
- Compensate Employees for Their Investment
- Change Minds as Well as Systems
- Be Objective When Assessing Your Organization’s Culture
- Build Broad Consensus on the Reason for the Change
- Don’t Rely Solely on Outside Consultants to Drive Change
- Encourage Reluctant Executives and Managers to Embrace the Change
- Listen to the Skeptics
- Chapter 14: Ten Ways Enterprise Agility Improves Product Delivery
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Chapter 12: Ten Reasons Enterprise Agile Transformations Fail
- About the Author
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Enterprise Agility For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2018
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781119446132
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