Agile Enterprise

Many organisations have embarked upon the Digital Transformation journey. 95%+ are destined to fail. This is down to many factors, but not least because organisations believe transformational change can be managed. Hearts over Diamonds presents a completely different approach to transformational change. One with a much lower risk of failure.

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This book challenges two illusions that can get in the way of your company’s road to being truly Agile: first, that your Scrum is “special,” and second, that you can hide behind project management software.

Kartar takes a job to improve a logistics company's adaptability. But his efforts to scale Agile practices across the enterprise are being blocked by Mr. Cherneski, a VP who's organized the company into siloed pigeon holes in order to secretly make millions with a dark web shipping service. Kartar's life is in danger and a spy agency hunts him.

This is a book on Agile technical practices, principles and values. The readers will first learn individual practices (TDD, Refactoring, Pair Programming, simple design and more). Afterwards they will focus on principles of Software Design, their relationships and systemic reasons, ending with a business oriented and sociotechnical perspective.

Du kennst die agile Welt, das iterative Vorgehen? Perfekt, dieses Buch ist an Personen gerichtet, die alte und neue Methoden in einem neuartigen Framework ausprobieren wollen und sich über Feedbackschleifen in die Optimierung der Vorgehensweisen einbringen wollen.

In this book The modern (IT) Organisation is described, agile from top to bottom, using the latest Lean-Agile Enterprise Change Delivery practices successfully applied by the leading Scaled-Agile Tech Companies and major "Disruptors".The Best Practices are based on dozens of interviews, publications and case studies of successful agile Enterprises.

Avoid outdated and bygone management traditions. Become a modern manager. Learn to manage yourself so you can lead and serve others with ease.

Great managers lead and serve others by creating an environment where people can do their best work. Create trust, loyalty, and engagement as a modern manager. Learn to lead and serve others with ease.

"[Eckstein] has covered the gamut of the common and uncommon challenges that teams encounter. This should be required reading for anyone involved in distributed agile development." ~Ken Pugh, author of Prefactoring. Note: This book has first been published in 2010.

Who says only a framework enables scaling agile?Contrariwise, applying agile in the large doesn't require a specific framework, it only requires taking the agile values and principles seriously. See how this can be done in a truly agile way, meaning being adaptive, flexible, responsive, and nimble. Note: This book has first been published in 2004

Valuable and accessible products and services are the most important assets for any business, especially in the digital economy. Through clear step-by-step explanations and real-life examples, you’ll learn the foundations of the API Product Management methodology. It will help you to create, launch, and run digital products customers love.

Today, companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be agile. By combining Beyond Budgeting,Open Space, Sociocracy, and Agile, this book provides a practical guide for companies that want to be agile company-wide.

Dynamic Reteaming shares real stories of how successful software companies have thrived through changing their teams as opposed to keeping them the same.  Learn to apply the five team change patterns: Isolation, One by One, Grow and Split, Merging and Switching. This is the 2019 first edition. The second 2020 edition is on Amazon.

How to coach agile teams and individuals to achieve best performance? Neuro-Linguistic Programming presuppositions can help a lot on the agile coaching role.