Agile For Everybody: Creating Fast, Flexible, And Customer-first Organizations

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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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y Agile for Everybody History by Matt LeMay Topics Copyright © 2019 Matt LeMay LLC. All rights reserved. Tutorials Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. Offers & Deals O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online Highlights editions are also available for most titles (http://oreilly.com/safari). For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: 800­998­9938 or [email protected] Settings SupportAcquitions Editor: Laurel Ruma Development Editor: Angela Rufino Sign Out Production Editor: Nan Barber Copyeditor: Octal Publishing, LLC Proofreader: Rachel Monaghan Indexer: Ellen Troutman­Zaig Interior Designer: Monica Kamsvaag Cover Designer: Ellie Volkhausen Illustrators: Rebecca Demarest and Amy Martin The cover image, the opening images for Chapters 3 through 6, and the Organizational Gravity figures were illustrated by Amy Martin. October 2018: First Edition Revision History for the First Edition 2018­10­15: First Release See http://oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=9781492033516 for release details. The O’Reilly logo is a registered trademark of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Agile for Everybody, the cover image, and related trade dress are trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc. The views expressed in this work are those of the author, and do not represent the publisher’s views. While the publisher and the author have used good faith efforts to ensure that the information and instructions contained in this work are accurate, the publisher and the author disclaim all responsibility for errors or omissions, including without limitation responsibility for damages resulting from the use of or reliance on this work. Use of the information and instructions contained in this work is at your own risk. If any code samples or other technology this work contains or describes is subject to open source licenses or the intellectual property rights of others, it is your responsibility to ensure that your use thereof complies with such licenses and/or rights. 978­1­492­03351­6 [LSI] Introduction History My Introduction to Agile: “Twice the Work in Half the Time” Topics We are going to be implementing some new Agile processes that will allow our product teams to get twice as much work done in half the time. Tutorials This was the firs