Overview
Provides organizational and behavioral guidelines for scalable and sustainable agility
Shows you how to build agile capability with an objective model based on the CMMI, Agile frameworks, and independent research
Teaches you how self-organization can bring a greater level of agile capability
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Table of contents (73 chapters)
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The Agile Performance Holarchy
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Ceremonies and Techniques
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About this book
As more companies seek the benefits of Agile within and beyond IT, agile leaders need to build and sustain capability while scaling agility—no easy task—and they need to succeed without introducing unnecessary process and overhead. The APH is drawn from lessons learned while observing and assessing hundreds of agile companies and teams.
It is not a process or a hierarchy, but a holarchy, a series of performance circles with embedded and interdependent holons that reflect the behaviors of high-performing agile organizations. Great Big Agile provides implementation guidance in the areas of leadership, values, teaming, visioning, governing, building, supporting, and engaging within an all-agile organization.
What You’ll Learn
- Model the behaviors of a high-performance agile organization
- Benefit from lessons learned by other organizations that have succeeded with Big Agile
- Assess your level of agility with the Agile Performance Holarchy
- Apply the APH model to your business
- Understand the APH performance circles, holons, objectives, and actions
- Obtain certification for your company, organization, or agency
Who This Book Is For
Professionals leading, or seeking to lead, an agile organization who wish to use an innovative model to raise their organization's agile performance from one level to the next, all the way to mastery
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jeff Dalton thinks the future of Big Agile is our industry’s biggest challenge, and he has been studying it for years. As the large adopters in the federal government and corporate sector begin to adopt agile, they will bring their habits, culture, and bureaucracies with them, and in dozens of podcasts, articles, books, and keynote speeches Jeff has been talking about getting in front of the wave. A veteran technologist and IT leader, Jeff started as a software developer and has been a CEO, chief technology executive, vice president of product development, director of quality, and Agile evangelist for over 30 years, including time with Ernst and Young, Electronic Data Systems, Hewlett Packard, Intellicorp, Polk, Broadsword, and AgileCxO. As a consultant, teacher, CMMI lead appraiser, and leadership coach, he has worked with NASA, Boeing, Accenture, Bose, L3 Communications, Fiat Chrysler Automotive, General Motors, Ford, and various federal and state agencies to help them improve performance. Jeff is a frequent keynote speaker, Agile performance holarchy assessor, blogger, and host of The Agile Leadership Podcast, a monthly series that interviews CIOs from state government about the challenges of agile adoption. In his spare time he is an instrument-rated pilot and plays bass in a jazz band.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Great Big Agile
Book Subtitle: An OS for Agile Leaders
Authors: Jeff Dalton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4206-3
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Jeff Dalton 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4205-6Published: 08 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4206-3Published: 07 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 335
Number of Illustrations: 107 illustrations in colour
Topics: Software Engineering, Project Management