About the Book

Agile Done Right

Miraculous Outcomes Overnight

Agile Scrum Lean Kanban - all the buzz words used by today's business leaders and management gurus. In 2011, the agile manifesto turned 10 years old. Some of the agile methodologies Scrum and XP are even older than that. Many organisations today are implementing agile methodologies or claiming to be agile already. Many managers and senior managers expected agile transformation to create miraculous outcomes in shortest possible time. However, even after so many years, more than 100 books published on the topic and numerous coaching, training and certifications offered by various organisations, Agile is still one of the most misunderstood term.

How many people really know meaning of being Agile?

Agile Done Right is a book for you:

• You are starting with your agile journey? 
• You are joining, managing, starting an Agile project
• You are being asked by your organisation to learn about Agile, sometimes forced by the boss
• Your organisation is in the middle of agile transformation and you want to get early movers advantage?
• You are leading such agile transformation. How do you know your organisation is agile? How do you measure success of agile? How do you know you are on the right track?
• You are just curious about what it means to be agile?

Agile Done Right explains in detail, being Agile in today's fast paced market. The core Lean principles and philosophy that every organisation should follow. What are the milestones that you should look for and obvious pitfalls on the way. This book provides direct, practical and often humorous advice on how to make your organisation Agile in The Right Way.

Remember Agile journey is very simple, however, extremely difficult to master!

About the Authors

Sam Adams

@@agilesam

Sam Adams is a management consultant and an agile coach as well as mentor. In the last ten years, he has worked with many of the large, fortune 500, both public and as well as private organizations. Coaching organizations on how to remain nimble in today’s extremely competitive market place.

Before becoming full time management consultant, Sam has seen first-hand, challenges faced in managing large projects. To figure out problems faced by the organization led him to study in detail about lean philosophy, systems thinking and organisation structures and bottlenecks. Armed with new found wisdom Sam is now a full time management consultant, specializing in organization design and structure and as agile transformation coach and mentor to organizations who are struggling with their agile implementation.

In the last ten years Sam has consulted dozens of private, public sector companies, and IT departments including CTO’s, group heads and directors.

Sam has mentored and coached many professionals on agile and what it means to be agile, who saw their agility increased by a factor of ten, in a short time.

Vaibhav Soparkar

Vaibhav is a passionate scrum practitioner. Vaibhav likes to work closely with teams to deliver concrete improvements, using lean and agile principles.

Vaibhav also likes to mentor and coach teams on agile principles and how to be agile for competitive advantage.