Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly

Overview

How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale—and demonstrates why and how to apply these paradigms throughout your organization, rather than with just one department or team.

Through case studies, you'll learn how successful enterprises have rethought everything from governance and financial management to systems architecture and organizational culture in the pursuit of radically improved performance.

• Discover how Lean focuses on people and teamwork at every level, in contrast to traditional management practices
• Approach problem-solving experimentally by exploring solutions, testing assumptions, and getting feedback from real users
• Lead and manage large-scale programs in a way that empowers employees, increases the speed and quality of delivery, and lowers costs
• Learn how to implement ideas from the DevOps and Lean Startup movements even in complex, regulated environments

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492091776
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/25/2020
Pages:	340
Sales rank:	695,686
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jez Humble is co-author of Continuous Delivery (Addison-Wesley), the Jolt Award-winning book in Martin Fowler's signature series. He began his career at a startup, and then spent 10 years at ThoughtWorks, building products and consulting. He now serves as a Vice President at Chef, and teaches at UC Berkeley.

Joanne Molesky is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where she works on internal IT Risk and Compliance, and provides consulting services to clients in the area of continuous delivery and process improvement, particularly as it applies to controls, risk, and compliance. She holds CISA and CRISC certifications from ISACA.

Barry O’Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation.

Barry works with business leaders and teams from global organizations that seek to invent the future, not fear it. Every day, Barry helps with many of the world’s leading companies, from disruptive startups to Fortune 500 behemoths, break the vicious cycles that spiral businesses toward death by enabling culture of experimentation and learning to unlock the insights required for better decision making, higher performance and results.

Barry is the author of [Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results](https://www.amazon.com/Unlearn-Success-Achieve-Extraordinary-Results/dp/1260143015/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=barryoreilly-20&linkId=821ee29a3f654f6e9abad80bf615ba2b&language=en_US), and co-author of the international bestseller [Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale—included](/library/view/lean-enterprise/9781491946527/) in the Eric Ries series, and a Harvard Business Review must read for CEOs and business leaders. He is an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review.

Barry is faculty at Singularity University, advising and contributing to Singularity’s executive and accelerator programs based in San Francisco, and throughout the globe.

Barry is the founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives, and management consultancy Antennae.

His mission is to help purposeful, technology-led businesses innovate at scale.

Read Barry’s blog here: [www.barryoreilly.com](https://barryoreilly.com/)

See what he has to say on Twitter: [@barryoreilly](https://twitter.com/barryoreilly)

Table of Contents

Preface xiii

Part I Orient

Chapter 1 Introduction 5

Chapter 2 Manage the Dynamics of the Enterprise Portfolio 21

Part II Explore

Chapter 3 Model and Measure Investment Risk 45

Chapter 4 Explore Uncertainty to Detect Opportunities 63

Chapter 5 Evaluate the Product/Market Fit 87

Part III Exploit

Chapter 6 Deploy Continuous improvement 111

Chapter 7 Identify Value and Increase Flow 133

Chapter 8 Adopt Lean Engineering Practices 155

Chapter 9 Take an Experimental Approach to Product Development 171

Chapter 10 Implement Mission Command 189

Part IV Transform

Chapter 11 Grow an Innovation Culture 209

Chapter 12 Embrace Lean Thinking for Governance, Risk, and Compliance 231

Chapter 13 Evolve Financial Management to Drive Product Innovation 245

Chapter 14 Turn IT into a Competitive Advantage 265

Chapter 15 Start Where You Are 283

Bibliography 297

Index 303