Agile for Everybody: Creating Fast, Flexible, and Customer-First Organizations

by Matt Lemay

The Agile movement provides real, actionable answers to the question that keeps many company leaders awake at How do we stay successful in a fast-changing and unpredictable world? Agile has already transformed how modern companies build and deliver software. This practical book demonstrates how entire organizations—from product managers and engineers to marketers and executives—can put Agile to work.

Author Matt LeMay explains Agile in clear, jargon-free terms and provides concrete and actionable steps to help any team put its values and principles into practice. Examples from a wide variety of organizations, including small nonprofits and global financial enterprises, bring to life the on-the-ground realities of Agile across industries and functions.

Understand exactly what Agile is and why it mattersUse Agile to address your organization’s specific needs and goalsTake customer centricity from theory into practiceStop wasting time in "report and critique" meetings and start making better decisionsCreate a harmonious cycle of learning, collaborating, and deliveringLearn from Agile experts at companies like IBM, Spotify, and Coca-Cola

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Management, Productivity

254 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 10, 2018

Reviews

[Derek · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for looking at how agile ideas expand to all areas of the business, not just software. I read this mostly to see why a collaboration book (which almost nothing to do with agile) kept referencing it.

This is hugely focused on people and how they communicate, reminding you along the way to not get too caught up in a prescribed agile process.

[Anjar Priandoyo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Agile means that we plan for uncertainty
Concept: Lean (Efficiency), Agile (Velocity), Design Thinking (Ustability, UI/UX)
Agile Practice Deep Dive: WHPI (Why How Prototype Iterate)

Short book, very good for introduction to agile.

[Saumya Singh · Rating 2 out of 5]

The topic was good. However the way the book was structured was like a novel and it didn't work for me.
I liked the specialising vs sanitizing concept and the WHPI topic. I somehow dragged through gis book 😖😖😖

[elisa dovio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Le domande da porsi per implementare realmente Agile nella propria organizzazione

[Norshafarina Faharuddin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book suitable for those who new to Agile practice.

[Sagar Jethani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great little primer. Some fluff, but 90% solid. I'll be putting several of these ideas into practice.

[Ferdi Brannekämper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hits the high notes “Agile is about People & Culture” conveys the heart of Agile not the noise about how good or bad certain approaches & frameworks are.

[Diego Kuri · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not for everybody.