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Manage and improve your organization's agile transformation
Adopting an enterprise agile framework is a radical organizational change, and this book will help you get there without ever breaking a sweat. In Enterprise Agility For Dummies, you'll discover how to successfully choose and implement the right framework based on your organization's own unique culture.
Organizational culture is one of the most overlooked challenges when trying to make a change to enterprise agile, and there are lots of resources out there that claim to have the perfect, one-size-fits-all solution. Luckily, this book takes a neutral stance and covers popular organizational change management techniques that you can implement to suit to your unique needs. Packed with step-by-step instruction and complemented with real-world case studies, this book offers everything you need to know in order to embrace a more agile mindset.
Understand the benefits of an agile approach
Pick the best enterprise agile framework for your organization
Create a successful enterprise change management plan
Let Enterprise Agility For Dummies help you optimize your business processes, and watch your productivity soar.
Autorentext
Doug Rose specializes in organizational coaching, training, and change management. For more than 20 years he has been transforming organizations through technology and training, and he has helped several large companies optimize their business processes and improve productivity and delivery. Doug also teaches business courses online through LinkedIn Learning and in the classroom.
Klappentext
Start a successful organizational change Transform your organization the smart way An enterprise agile transformation can be a radical organizational change. Do it successfully with the guidance in this book! You'll learn how to identify and understand your organization's culture, match the best agile framework, and develop a positive change management strategy. Real-world case studies show you what to expect, and step-by-step instructions help you craft the solution that fits the unique needs of your enterprise. Enterprise agility helps your organization quickly adapt to market changes and seize new opportunities. Inside
Zusammenfassung
Manage and improve your organization's agile transformation Adopting an enterprise agile framework is a radical organizational change, and this book will help you get there without ever breaking a sweat. In Enterprise Agility For Dummies, you'll discover how to successfully choose and implement the right framework based on your organization's own unique culture.
Organizational culture is one of the most overlooked challenges when trying to make a change to enterprise agile, and there are lots of resources out there that claim to have the perfect, one-size-fits-all solution. Luckily, this book takes a neutral stance and covers popular organizational change management techniques that you can implement to suit to your unique needs. Packed with step-by-step instruction and complemented with real-world case studies, this book offers everything you need to know in order to embrace a more agile mindset.
Inhalt
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: Getting Started with Enterprise Agility 5
Chapter 1: Taking It All In: The Big Picture 7
Defining Agile and Enterprise Agility 7
Understanding agile product delivery 8
Defining enterprise agility 12
Checking out popular enterprise agile frameworks 15
Practicing as much agile as your organization can tolerate 16
Achieving Enterprise Agility in Three Not-So-Easy Steps 18
Step 1: Review the top enterprise agile frameworks 18
Step 2: Identify your organization's existing culture 19
Step 3: Create a strategy for making big changes 21
Chapter 2: Reviewing Agile Team Practices and Frameworks 27
Exploring Common Agile Practices 28
Starting with user stories, epics, and themes 28
Estimating with story points 30
Queuing up work 33
Conducting stand-up meetings 34
Shifting to test-driven development 34
Developing product iterations through continuous integration 34
Delivering Products with Scrum 36
Wrapping your brain around Scrum theory 37
Getting up to speed on Scrum values 38
Working in a Scrum team 39
Stepping through Scrum events 41
Producing Scrum artifacts 46
Growing Scrum 48
Developing Better Software with Extreme Programming 50
Checking out XP's values 50
Following XP's software engineering practices 51
Noting the similarities between XP and Scrum 52
Mixing and matching agile frameworks 53
Learning from Manufacturing with Lean Software Development 54
Managing Workflow with Kanban 56
Innovating Quickly with Lean Startup 56
Using a build-measure-learn feedback loop 57
Focusing on the one metric that matters 58
Mixing Lean Startup with enterprise agile frameworks 58
Chapter 3: Simplifying Lean Agility with SLAM 59
Introducing the Simple Lean-Agile Mindset (SLAM) 60
Starting at the Bottom with System-Level Optimization 62
Shortening the cycle time 63
Clearing communication channels 63
Budgeting for value streams 64
Encouraging transparency 65
Timeboxing 66
Working in cross-functional teams 67
Respecting people 68
Removing fear of failure 68
Setting and Executing a Strategic Vision 69
Breaking it down 71
Prioritizing the work 72
Pulling work into the teams 73
Taking an Empirical Approach to Products, Operations, and Innovation 74
Pulling in ideas, features, and tasks 76
Getting real-time feedback by delivering in small batches 77
Building Toward Business Agility 78
Part 2: Reviewing the Top Enterprise Agile Frameworks 81
Chapter 4: Joining the Big Leagues with the Scaled Agile Framework 83
Getting Your Head in the SAFe Game 84
Meeting the SAFe framework and principles 84
Picking and choosing what to use 88
Approaching SAFe as a practical compromise 90
Avoiding water-agile-fall 92
Differentiating doing agile from being agile 94
Wait a minute: Is SAFe the right solution? 94
Stepping Through the SAFe Management Layers and Levels 96
Bottom up: Starting at the foundation 96
Heading to the top: The enterprise 98
Visioning at the Portfolio level 98
Tackling big jobs at the Large Solution level 107
Making things happen at the Program level 111
Getting to work at the Team level 120
Filling in the background with the SAFe spanning palette 122 Making ...