The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations 1st Edition Mario E. Moreira 148422390 9781484223918X

ISBN 10:  148422390X

ISBN 13: 9781484223918

Author: Mario E. Moreira

Discover how to implement and operate in an Agile manner at every level of your enterprise and at every point from idea to delivery. Learn how Agile-mature organizations adapt nimbly to microchanges in market conditions. Learn cutting-edge practices and concepts as you extend your implementation of Agile through the entire enterprise to meet customer needs. Veteran Agile coach Mario Moreira argues that two critical conditions must be conscientiously cultivated at a company before it can expect to reap in full measure the business benefits of mature Agile. First, individuals at every level must be committed to the mindset and the implementation of practices rigorously focused on delivering value to the customer. Second, all employees must be empowered to take ownership. This holistic transformation wrenches the status quo and provokes a strong focus where customers and employees matter. What You’ll Learn Establish an idea pipeline to quickly and productively evolve customer value through all levels of the enterprise Incorporate a discovery mindset—experimental, incremental, design, and divergent thinking—and fast feedback loops to increase the odds that what you build aligns more closely to what customer wants Leverage Lean Canvas, personas, story mapping, value stream mapping, Cost of Delay, servant leadership, self-organization, and more to deliver optimum value to customers Use continuous agile budgeting and idea pipelines at the senior levels of the enterprise to enable you to adapt to the speed of the market Reinvent human resources, portfolio management, finance, and many areas of management toward new roles in the enablement of customer value Map a top-to-bottom and end-to-end holistic view of your Agile galaxy to gauge where you are today and where you’d like to go in your Agile future Be truly Agile throughout your enterprise, focused on customer value and employees above all else Who This Book Is For Executives and senior management; sponsors of Agile within a company; ScrumMasters and Agile coaches, champions, and consultants; project management and quality assurance officers (PMOs and AMOs); portfolio managers; product managers and product owners; marketing and business managers; functional, middle, and resource managers; engineering heads and managers; cross-functional engineering/scrum teams; and entrepreneurs and venture capitalists

Contents

About the Author

About the Contributors

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Innovations of This Book

What You Will Learn

Who This Book Is For

How to Navigate This Book

Pit Stops, Exercises, and References

Chapter 2: Envisioning a Customer-Value-Driven Enterprise

The Engine of Customer Value

Moving Away from Certainty

Adapting toward Value

Challenging Assumptions

Shedding Enterprise Weight

Management Closer to Customer Value

Are You Optimized for a Culture of Customer Value?

Chapter 3: Achieving Better Business Outcomes

Embracing the Agile Values and Principles

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

Principles behind the Agile Manifesto

Enabling Agile with Processes and Practices