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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moreira, Mario E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York, NY Apress, Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer 2017
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • About the Author; About the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Innovations of This Book; What You Will Learn; Who This Book Is For; How to Navigate This Book; Pit Stops, Exercises, and References; Chapter 2: Envisioning a Customer-Value-Driven Enterprise; The Engine of Customer Value; Moving Away from Certainty; Adapting toward Value; Challenging Assumptions; Shedding Enterprise Weight; Management Closer to Customer Value; Are You Optimized for a Culture of Customer Value?; Chapter 3: Achieving Better Business Outcomes
  • Less Obvious Agile RolesCustomers; Executives and Senior Management; Business Leaders (Including Marketing and Sales); Middle Management; Human Resources; Finance; Portfolio Management; Project Management Office (PMO); The Importance of an Agile Coach; Bounded Authority; Healthy Employee Relationships; Healthy Manager-to-Employee Relationships; Holocracy; Have You Evolved Your Roles Yet?; Chapter 9: Building a Learning Enterprise; Education Is More than Training; Agile Education Universe; Agile Education to Ready the Mind; Topics in the Agile Education Universe
  • Embracing the Agile Values and PrinciplesManifesto for Agile Software Development; Principles behind the Agile Manifesto; Enabling Agile with Processes and Practices; Engaging Your Customers and Employees; Focusing on Outcomes; Do You Have the Recipe for Success?; Chapter 4: Building Your Agile Galaxy; Landscape of the Agile Galaxy; Holistic Process View of an Agile Galaxy; Holistic Roles of the Agile Galaxy; What Does Your Agile Galaxy Look Like?; Chapter 5: Activating an Agile Culture; Agile Mindset; Three Dimensions of an Agile Culture; Culture of Agile Values
  • Is Customer Feedback an Integral Part of Your Customer-Value Engine?Chapter 7: Embracing Employees; Mechanics That Tune the Engine of Customer Value; The COMETS within Your Agile Galaxy; Self-Organizing Teams; Collaboration; Ownership; Motivation; Extrinsic Motivation; Intrinsic Motivators; Empowerment; Trust; Trust Relationships; Safety; Understanding Employee Engagement; What Is Your Employee Culture?; Chapter 8: Evolving Roles in Your Agile Enterprise; Optimizing Enterprise Roles for Agile; Obvious Agile Roles; Development Teams; ScrumMaster; Product Owner; Product Owner Constellation
  • Remembering the Agile PrinciplesCultural Color of Your Organization; Where Pluralistic-Green Supports Agile; Where Evolutionary-Teal Supports Agile; Readying the Culture; Assessing the Culture You Have; Agile Cultural Assessment Survey; What Culture Do You Have?; Chapter 6: Embracing Customers; Driver of Customer Feedback; Customer Feedback Bull's-eye; Customer Universe Surrounding the Agile Galaxy; Customers in a Value-Driven Enterprise; Learning Your Way to Customer Value; Enterprise Anti-patterns of Attaining Customer Value; Customer Challenges of Understanding Value