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The Age of Agile
- How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Publisher's Summary
More value from less work.
An unstoppable business revolution is under way - and it is Agile. Companies that embrace Agile Management learn to connect everyone and everything...all the time. They can deliver instant, intimate, frictionless value on a large scale.
Agile began emerging many decades ago, but truly took off in the software development industry. Sparking dramatic improvements in quality, innovation, and speed-to-market, the Agile movement is now spreading quickly throughout all kinds of companies. It enables a team, a unit, or an enterprise to nimbly adapt and upgrade products and services to meet rapidly changing technology and customer needs. And the process is applicable anywhere—companies don’t need to be born Agile, like Spotify. Even centuries-old Barclays is making the transition and reaping rewards.
Filled with examples from every sector, The Age of Agile helps readers:
- Master the three laws of Agile Management (team, customer, network)
- Embrace the new mindset
- Overcome constraints
- Employ meaningful metrics
- Make the entire organization Agile
- And more
With this breakthrough approach, even global giants can learn to act entrepreneurially. Their future depends on it.
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- CBM
- 03-05-18
2 Part Book - The part on Agile is truly Awesome!
Probably the best book about Agile currently available (excluding Mike Beedle’s work). I give the first 7 chapters 10 Stars! The 2nd half of the book is a thinly disguised anti-capitalist rant that is simply unnecessary.
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- Srikanth Ramanujam
- 03-06-18
This is "Radical Management" 2.0
I have been following Steve Denning and his storytelling for a while now. The "Age of Agile" is an updated version of his earlier book from 2010 - "Radical Management". If you haven't read that one, skip it and read this one instead.
As a practicing Agile coach and transformation agent, I can empathize with Steve's views on Agility. Agility is certainly a strong organizational competitive advantage, but it is an answer amongst other things - he does take elements of that on in the second part of the book including moving from shareholder centricity to being client-centric, stock-market manipulations, etc.
One missing piece is innovation, there is an assumption that just being agile could make organizations innovative - though possible, in the complex domain without building an organization that is capable of identifying and nurturing innovation and thinking outside-the-box to build resilience is a missing piece.
A good read for Leaders and Managers, especially to those thinking of "Business Agility" and "Strategic Agility" though I wonder whether the people who would need to imbibe and introduce real change might be put off by his brutal honesty and the complexity of the magnitude of change required to introduce the new reality.
If only organizations would change by reading a $10 book, if only... :-)
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- Robert Bouillon
- 06-04-20
The author must have been paid by the word.
I'm a software engineer looking to better understand Agile. This is one of the books I purchased. What I got, instead, was half of a book that was a marketing brochure, extolling the successes of Agile, with the second half of the book being an introduction to economics theory. I got virtually NOTHING from reading this book.
The first half of the book describes anecdote after anecdote about how great Agile is, sprinkled with the double-speak that tends to be be a hallmark of Agile evangelists: "Agile is both top-down and bottom-up" and it's "organized chaos." Agile is apparently the proper solution for every problem in every scenario, from software to business, with no shortcomings. The only Agile organizations that fail are the ones that "aren't really agile." How do you measure who is and who isn't Agile? Well, you can't, because Agile isn't a process you can measure. It's a "mindset." So how do you know which organizations are Agile? Well, successful ones are Agile, and unsuccessful ones are not, even if the organization hasn't adopted the Agile methodology! I'm not even kidding - the book dedicates significant text to attributing the success of the Apple iPhone to agile, when it's well-known that Apple was not Agile, but in-fact had their own design-driven processes that revolved around making ONE user happy: Steve Jobs.
The second half of the sounds like a book that was written for economists that was quickly edited to loosely tie the content back to Agile somehow. An entire chapter will go into great detail about the dangers of shareholder value, just to abruptly talk about Agile management for a paragraph. It will then suddenly shift right back into economics. It feels overtly artificial and unnatural, each time attempting to justify the 6-chapter segue into economic theory by claiming that agile managers need to "understand economics to talk to C-suite executives."
There are many, better books on economics I'd recommend, and if I wanted to better understand the benefits and drawbacks of shareholder value, I would have purchased a book on economics, not Agile. This is neither a good Agile nor a good Economics book. I'd stay away unless you're expressly looking for 6 chapters of marketing material for Agile.
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- Jhan Knebel
- 04-09-19
great for c suite
Great for someone new to Agile management. Rudimentary for those with experience. Recommend this to your C suite if you are justifying an Agile shift.
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- Johannes Klose Andersen
- 08-07-18
A must read for people who want a change
It have a lot of interesting points, and have become a reference for a lot of debating about organizations and agile transformation
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- Luqman
- 04-16-18
Paradigm shift worth every minute !
Must read, as every company will become software with the advent of Industry 4 and digital transformation.
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- Frank from Virginia
- 03-18-18
This book devolved into a political treatise
The first half of the book is about agile management and is pretty good. The last half of the book devolves into a LONG diatribe against maximizing shareholder value. This is literally half of the book.
8 people found this helpful
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- Alex
- 11-10-19
Lot of fluff
The first half of the book that actually described agile was good. the second half, discussing financial practices of corporations, was completely unrelated to agile.
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- Venn
- 06-12-21
A great read
This book gives great insight to the world of agile, it’s successes and failures. It highlights the myth of shareholder value vs customer value and offers great insight into the pitfalls shareholders face in the long term. Overall I enjoyed the book and would happily recommend it to anyone who needs to improve their knowledge of the new economy
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- Álvaro Ferreira
- 07-10-20
One of the best
One of the best. Ive bought it through audible but ill buy the printed version too
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- Per.E
- 03-17-18
Extremely Dogmatic
Any additional comments?
The author is extremely dogmatic throughout the entire book which makes it somewhat of a painful listen. Some useful takeaways but I would not recommend this book.
Just to use an example. Making claims like focusing on a small team, customers and the network effect should justify a Nobel Prize in business is equivalent to arguing better eating, more exercise, less stress and focus on sleep would justify the same in medicine. These are not revolutionizing views and have been used in practice well before someone coined the phrase Agile.
While I agree that corporations often fall victim of short term focus, but arguing for outlawing share buybacks because some companies rely on it during the wrong time is quite extreme. Prohibiting companies from buying back shares but allowing them to issue an infinite amount of shares could equally have unfavorable systemic consequences.
The author seems to argue innovation for the sake of innovation which is contrary to the conclusions made by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen in Great by Choice.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-07-19
A book of two halves
A slightly odd book - the first 1/3 or 1/2 is on topic you'd expect i.e. all about Agile transformation & Agile mindset. Found it super useful & helped my understanding. But remainder of the book switches to the problem with please shareholders & share price mindset which the author clearly feels strongly about but repeats essentially the same point over & over again (i.e. corporate greed / shareholder mindset BAD, Agile & innovation GOOD).
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-17-18
Not about agile
This book is more about the place of agile in the context of the history and its impact and less about practical application of the concept.
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- Ika
- 10-05-20
Much needed
Much needed, extremely helpful.
Wise, informative, based on facts.
Beautifully written.
Thank you!
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-19-19
The part on agile is very interesting, but bundled with personal views on poorly researched/understood topics
The part on agile is very interesting and enlightening, but the author bundles it with his personal views on poorly researched and understood topics beyond agile management. Some of the points are even fair, but the author’s biases and lack of understanding becomes too apparent to take it as a serious advocate voice for change and stimulate discussions on the topics... a shorter to the point book on agile would likely make a greater impact for this important field of management.
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- Ahmet
- 08-25-19
1-7 chapters for Agile Transformation
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-18-19
Thought provoking and timely
A book not just about the process of agile but the philosophy behind and need for the movement. Inspiring.
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- Cláudio P
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Very good reading
Very interesting subject, full of examples and context. it's a good starting point to the agile theme.
The only thing to i.prove is that the examples are very specific to the US.
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- B Beck
- 07-30-18
Insightful
As someone with interests in Management i found the book insightful.
It tells about examples which are slowly showing up around the workplace.
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- Christian Kiernander
- 07-04-18
More than sprints etc. This is for business leaders that want to innovate
Wow. This book really surprised me.
Ok, I hadn’t read enough about it to know what to expect before I plunged in. I imagined it would be a dry reminder about the manifesto, sprints, back logs etc.
It wasn’t.
This book is a broad socio economic and business management model critique and analysis. It is surgical in its precise dissection of forces holding back innovation and argues that Agile will become more relevant and disruptive as “software eats the world”. It is not an evangelical pitch for Agile but rather offers a realistic appraisal of the barriers to adoption and how it is doomed to fail in many organisations -that said, the wider point is that many organisations are also doomed to fail…
I didn’t expect to be inspired but I was. This book is as relevant to C -suite and business execs as it is to technical leaders.
I’m an MBA and as you’d expect that means I’ve studied strategy but this book gives one of the best critical appraisals of Michael Porters much lauded five forces I’ve ever read.
I loved the detail about hedge fund activists, stock price manipulation and the insanity of the primacy of share holder value.
I did the audio book at 1.5 speed whilst driving. I’ll be listening to it again because this is full of gems I’d like to more fully absorb. The narration is really good. I might even get the print copy as well because I will want to refer back to sections in this.
In summary, this book should be consumed by any business leader that wants to be relevant in 10 years from now.
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- MARK WALMSLEY
- 03-28-18
Not really about agile.
The glosses over agile and spends most of the time lamenting current corporate practices related to strategy and share buybacks. Not what I wanted.
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- Matthew
- 05-21-18
Agile in part
Some real gems buried amongst the rhetoric... some of the rhetoric was interesting ... some of it just unrelated fill.