Agile at Scale: Top Tech, Second Edition

by Jennifer Masters

This guide focuses on the principles and growth of an agility mindset throughout an organization,creating efficiencies within teams, cross-team communication flows, and continuation ofchange to allow for process improvements over time to deliver and maintain successful productsand services.The goal is to promote a future of calculating your own solutions that fit your organization’spath for success. The three key factors discussed are adaptation, efficiency and scaling. Eachsection end contains retrospective questions for your teams to work together and review yourprocesses for identification of needed changes for planning and strategy.The retrospective questions guide discussion with your teams to learn how to apply key conceptsdiscussed. They identify what key concepts your teams already possess with whatneeds to be incorporated for review to be more efficient moving forward in delivering your bestwork. Strategic development at the end of each section reviews the strategy discussed andhelps to identify organizational goals that will assist teams in alignment to the overall strategicgoals of the organization.In the second edition of this guidebook, there is an addition of dependency review on interteamcommunication and product or service delivery. Another addition is common misconceptionsand organizational behavior as you implement change. The dependency section will helpyou identify key questions that reveal the underlying processes to evaluate how they help yourteams deliver. The addition of common misconceptions focuses on organizational behavior andhelps recognize the need to address culture, guiding a holistic implementation that is adaptivefor your teams and organization.

25 pages, Paperback

Published November 17, 2020