The Journey to Enterprise Agility: Systems Thinking and Organizational Legacy
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072WB22W3 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The authors provide usable insights for anyone operating in a" according to MICHAEL BUTSKO. The authors provide usable insights for anyone operating in a large scale software team that is working to incorporate Agile methodologies without attempting to be an instruction manual for adoption. The book covers all of the roles on a Agile software teams in the enterprise from software craftsmanship and architecture to leadership, project management and human resources. This is helpful for read. A gem with a unique perspective. This book has surprised me on many levels. The author's views are very intriguing and insightful. The book is also engaging and interesting to read. I look forward to trying to put some of these principles and approaches into practice on a daily basis.. Derek said A Pragmatic and Entertaining Primer on Enterprise Agility. Kulak and Li borrow from years of collective experience to offer a systems thinking perspective on software development and delivery within an enterprise. Through a healthy balance of practical insight and wit, the book distills decades of struggles with creating value through technology into actionable chunks and advice to all layers of enterprise leadership, from executives to individual contribu
The Journey to Enterprise Agility is about just that - the journey. The Agile teams will first need to adapt to the legacy groups around them. They have their jobs to do. Your transformation effort needs to accommodate their needs as well as your own. Think of this book as a guidebook to working on all the complicated, messy problems of changing software process in an enterprise. There are lots of enterprise Agile frameworks - SAFe, NEXUS, LeSS, DAD, GROWS, Lean Enterprise, Modern Agile, and many others. They are all pretty good. To do this in a structured way, we use concepts and principles from the world of systems thinking. And not the systems thinking of Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing, but a different school called "soft systems thinking" that is most helpful in dealing with problems