Sooner Safer Happier

Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility

By: Jonathan Smart, Zsolt Berend - contributor, Myles Ogilvie -contributor, Simon Rohrer -contributor

Narrated by: Jane Steel

Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

It's no secret that we are living in the Digital Age. Technology companies make up seven of the world's ten largest firms by market capitalization. And the key to their success is the key to all modern organizations.

Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals the patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. Through his decades of experience in the technology world, Smart provides business leaders with a blueprint for creating a world-class organization of the future.

Through Agile and Lean ways of working, business leaders can empower teams to improve production, grow together, and create better services for their customers. These better ways of working have overflowed from the IT department to every corner of successful organizations, taking root in every industry from aerospace to accounting, insurance to shipping.

This book is not about software development. It is not a book about the computer industry. This book is about applying agility across the entire organization. It's a book that will put you at the front of change and ahead of the competition.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Jonathan Smart (P)2020 Jonathan Smart

Great overview of best practices and anti-patterns

I've read a lot of books in the past year on better ways of working. My favorites include, the theory of constraints series(The Goal), Team Topologies and all books by Patrick Lencioni. This book does not conflict with the theories or methods of my learnings so far. However, it is bolder in pointing out anti-patterns.

I would recommend this book both to someone new to the topics and also to seasoned consultants with plenty of experience.

I think the major critique point would be a lack of examples on the best practices. They spend more time on examples of what not to do, which works great. Some detailed practical examples of good practices would be nice.

A Reference Manual for Agile

A brilliant, all-in-one guidebook for agile. Like another reviewer said, after about an hour of listening I also bought the book. It’s that good…I finished listening and now I keep a copy of the book on my desk to reference throughout the work day. If you’re a leader in IT, or just someone who wants to make a difference in your team or organization, you need to read this book!

Fantastic

Listened to first few chapters, then bought the book as well. I actually listened and read the book at the same time. What a great way to embed the information.

Loved the patterns / anti-patterns approach. Will be able to use some of the case studies at work.

Will be reading / listening to the again soon.

Succinctly summarizes our years of experience

Loved it. It's very relatable. Sharing the book itself influences change in all levels of the organization. Thank you.

For all people who want to improve the way we work

This is one of the most comprehensive books on agile patterns and anti-patterns I have read. I found myself recognizing many of the anti-patterns in my own organization and then learning about patterns to try and correct the trajectory. I plan on purchasing several copies and sharing them with my colleagues.

Life changing

Everything I needed after reading The Phoenix Project. A continual-reference-and-often-reread hardcover on my shelf, too!

great source for those new to Agility

It's like an encyclopedia of all the agility books placing their key messages in one place

Highly recommended for product leaders

I recommend this book to anyone who’s interested in rolling out an agile transformation, or helping roll one out. It talks about why most top down, one-size-fits-all forced agile transformations fail, and what to do instead.

Great Insights and Summary (bvssh)

Narration could be livelier. Insightful Content & examples. Had fun pausing and reflecting..

I came across Jonathan's video from Unicorn Project, and followed through his works, got hooked to his simple explanations and hilariously artistic description of Certified Really Agile Practitioner. This book gives a more in depth look into Bvssh. If you need convincing, search @jonsmart on YouTube.

Great perspective and insight

Crate book lots of insight especially going through a transformation myself definitely some gold bricks in here