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The Journey to Enterprise Agility
- Systems Thinking and Organizational Legacy
- Narrated by: Daryl Kulak
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Categories: Computers & Technology
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Publisher's Summary
A guide to navigating the messiness of software development process change, dealing with all the legacy organizational elements, and focusing on increasing business agility.
There are lots of enterprise Agile frameworks - SAFe, NEXUS, LeSS, DAD, GROWS, Lean Enterprise, Modern Agile, and many others. They are all pretty good. But they all miss one important factor: how the heck do you get there? They describe perfect little "cities on the hill" but they don't give advice as to what to do when the program management office (PMO) cracks down on your status reporting, or when enterprise architecture wants yet another review of your design diagrams.
The Journey to Enterprise Agility is about just that - the journey. Lots of things can slow or stop an Agile transformation. But that doesn't mean these legacy groups are evil or even have bad intentions. They have their jobs to do. Your transformation effort needs to accommodate their needs as well as your own. 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 of people and perspectives.
Think of this book as a guidebook to working on all the complicated, messy problems of changing software process in an enterprise. The Agile teams will first need to adapt to the legacy groups around them. And then later, the legacy groups can work on transforming themselves, morphing into something more nimble that can help to produce business value faster and more reliably than the old waterfall processes.
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- Jonathon Baugh
- 07-07-17
Powerful approach to "Why?" Agile
The authors truly have lived and breathed Agile and take the approach in the book of discussing the "Why" instead of focusing on the all-to-often trap of best practices. The approach embodies it's own message and I've already shared it with those on my current project.
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- Jack Wendel
- 05-04-20
One of my top recommended books
As a leadership coach, I read or listen to a lot of leadership and coaching books. For leaders in any company facing challenges in becoming a more agile organization (and that should be almost all organizations), this book provide great insights and guidance in how to progress on that journey. It’s right up there with “The Age of Agile” by Steve Denning.
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- ATX
- 12-05-17
mostly excellent
aside from a few misgivings about lean and how it's used in software delivery, I found this book to be spot-on with excellent research and insight.
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- James
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A facinating book
This book is well worth the listen. It make you think aboit everything you do in a completely different way and in a completely different light.
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- Morgan
- 11-14-17
Great insight into enterprise level, modern problems
Having really enjoyed Phoenix Project (PP) I had high expectations on this. Where as PP covered a revolution in the company from a story view this book addressed many such issues and others from real life experience.