The Concise Executive Guide to Agile

by Israel Gat

Four broad topics are covered in The Concise Executive Guide to rationale for Agile, implementing it, fitting it into your company, and scaling it to the enterprise level. The Guide targets executives from every function that Agile affects to provide them with the principles they need in order to become effective with an Agile initiative.

72 pages

First published June 27, 2010

Reviews

[Michael Coté]

Executives are often left with few hand-holds for fitting Agile development into their usual management tasks - setting plans (including budget), measuring success and failure, using leadership to set the plans and spirit that teams operate under, the mechanics of scaling Agile to multiple teams at "big" companies, and most importantly being able to make business decisions with imperfect information.

In a quick 27 pages, Israel Gat covers the tasks management must take on introduce, manage, and then maintain Agile in their organization. Packed into this brief guide is enough information to bring an executive up to speed on what they should be doing if they've found themselves in charge of an Agile organization, or if they're trying to boot-strap to that state.

[Ben Love · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a short, to-the-point, solid little book that really captures the essence and right topics for Execs to be thinking about when they hear the crowds chanting for Agile.
I loved the homage to the Agile Manifesto, the multiple context examinations (finance, legacy, compensation, measurement, IT etc.) and honest guidance it gives.
No fluff, just good stuff.