Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility
Lessons from Agile’s First Decade…Leadership for Agile’s Next Decade

 

The agile software movement has now been around for a full decade. As coauthor of the original Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith has been at its heart since the beginning. He’s spent the past decade helping hundreds of organizations transition to agile/lean. When it comes to agile, he’s seen it all–in a variety of industries, worldwide.

 

Now, in Adaptive Leadership, he has compiled, updated, and extended his best writings about agile and lean methods for a management audience. Highsmith doesn’t just reveal what’s working and what isn’t; he offers a powerful new vision for extending agility across the enterprise.

 

Drawing on what’s been learned in application development, this guide shows how to use adaptive leadership techniques to transform the way you deliver complete solutions, whatever form they take. You’ll learn how enterprise agility can enable the ambitious organizational missions that matter most; how leaders can deliver a continuous stream of value; how to think disruptively about opportunities, and how to respond quickly by creating more adaptive, innovative organizations.

 

Coverage includes

  • Discovering and executing new business opportunities far more quickly
  • Delivering complete business solutions earlier, and iterating them more often
  • Organizing for innovation, and systematically managing opportunity flow
  • Clarifying the degree of strategic, portfolio, and operational agility you need, and focusing on your highest-value transformations
  • Creating cultures that actually can adapt and learn
  • Reinvigorating the roots of agile value and values
  • Understanding IT’s changing value proposition, and retraining your people accordingly
  • Integrating economics, products, and social responsibility
  • Choosing metrics that guide agility, not counterproductive traditional metrics
  • Understanding the financial implications of technical debt
  • Optimizing business value by doing less–and guiding the process with ”NOT to do“ lists
  • Speculating intelligently when you can’t plan away uncertainty
  • Customizing management to each project’s needs (because not all projects should be equally agile)

 

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Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility
Lessons from Agile’s First Decade…Leadership for Agile’s Next Decade

 

The agile software movement has now been around for a full decade. As coauthor of the original Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith has been at its heart since the beginning. He’s spent the past decade helping hundreds of organizations transition to agile/lean. When it comes to agile, he’s seen it all–in a variety of industries, worldwide.

 

Now, in Adaptive Leadership, he has compiled, updated, and extended his best writings about agile and lean methods for a management audience. Highsmith doesn’t just reveal what’s working and what isn’t; he offers a powerful new vision for extending agility across the enterprise.

 

Drawing on what’s been learned in application development, this guide shows how to use adaptive leadership techniques to transform the way you deliver complete solutions, whatever form they take. You’ll learn how enterprise agility can enable the ambitious organizational missions that matter most; how leaders can deliver a continuous stream of value; how to think disruptively about opportunities, and how to respond quickly by creating more adaptive, innovative organizations.

 

Coverage includes

  • Discovering and executing new business opportunities far more quickly
  • Delivering complete business solutions earlier, and iterating them more often
  • Organizing for innovation, and systematically managing opportunity flow
  • Clarifying the degree of strategic, portfolio, and operational agility you need, and focusing on your highest-value transformations
  • Creating cultures that actually can adapt and learn
  • Reinvigorating the roots of agile value and values
  • Understanding IT’s changing value proposition, and retraining your people accordingly
  • Integrating economics, products, and social responsibility
  • Choosing metrics that guide agility, not counterproductive traditional metrics
  • Understanding the financial implications of technical debt
  • Optimizing business value by doing less–and guiding the process with ”NOT to do“ lists
  • Speculating intelligently when you can’t plan away uncertainty
  • Customizing management to each project’s needs (because not all projects should be equally agile)

 

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Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility

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Lessons from Agile’s First Decade…Leadership for Agile’s Next Decade

 

The agile software movement has now been around for a full decade. As coauthor of the original Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith has been at its heart since the beginning. He’s spent the past decade helping hundreds of organizations transition to agile/lean. When it comes to agile, he’s seen it all–in a variety of industries, worldwide.

 

Now, in Adaptive Leadership, he has compiled, updated, and extended his best writings about agile and lean methods for a management audience. Highsmith doesn’t just reveal what’s working and what isn’t; he offers a powerful new vision for extending agility across the enterprise.

 

Drawing on what’s been learned in application development, this guide shows how to use adaptive leadership techniques to transform the way you deliver complete solutions, whatever form they take. You’ll learn how enterprise agility can enable the ambitious organizational missions that matter most; how leaders can deliver a continuous stream of value; how to think disruptively about opportunities, and how to respond quickly by creating more adaptive, innovative organizations.

 

Coverage includes

  • Discovering and executing new business opportunities far more quickly
  • Delivering complete business solutions earlier, and iterating them more often
  • Organizing for innovation, and systematically managing opportunity flow
  • Clarifying the degree of strategic, portfolio, and operational agility you need, and focusing on your highest-value transformations
  • Creating cultures that actually can adapt and learn
  • Reinvigorating the roots of agile value and values
  • Understanding IT’s changing value proposition, and retraining your people accordingly
  • Integrating economics, products, and social responsibility
  • Choosing metrics that guide agility, not counterproductive traditional metrics
  • Understanding the financial implications of technical debt
  • Optimizing business value by doing less–and guiding the process with ”NOT to do“ lists
  • Speculating intelligently when you can’t plan away uncertainty
  • Customizing management to each project’s needs (because not all projects should be equally agile)

 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780133598643
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 11/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 124
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Jim Highsmith is a founding member of the Agile Alliance, coauthor of the Agile Manifesto, and an executive consultant with ThoughtWorks, Inc. He has spent more than thirty years as an IT manager, product manager, project manager, developer, and consultant. He consults with development organizations worldwide on accelerating development in today’s increasingly complex, uncertain environments. Highsmith is author of Adaptive Software Development , winner of the 2000 Jolt Award, and (with Alistair Cockburn) coeditor of The Agile Software Development Series . In 2005, he was honored with the international Stevens Award for outstanding contributions to systems development.

Table of Contents

 

Foreword by Gary Gruver

Foreword by Christopher Murphy

Foreword by John Crosby

Preface

 

Chapter 1: Enterprise Agility

Chapter 2: Adaptive Leadership Today

Chapter 3: Deliver A Continuous Flow of Value

Chapter 4: Create an Adaptive, Innovative Culture

Chapter 5: Final Words

 

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