Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
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ISBN-13: | 9781942788911 |
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Publisher: | IT Revolution Press |
Publication date: | 11/10/2020 |
Pages: | 416 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures xii
A Sense of Urgency 1
Chapter 0 How We Got Here 14
Chapter 1 Focus on Outcomes: Better Value Sooner Safer Happier 36
Antipattern 1.1 Doing an Agile Transformation 43
Antipattern 1.2 Using Old Ways of Thinking to Apply New Ways of Working 47
Pattern 1.1 Focus on Outcomes 53
Pattern 1.2 Start with Why; Empower the How 55
Chapter 2 Achieve Big Through Small 64
Antipattern 2.1 The Bigger the Capital "T" Transformation, the Bigger the Change Curve 66
Antipattern 2.2 Scaling Agile Before Descaling the Work 74
Antipattern 2.3 Grass Roots Hits a Grass Ceiling 76
Pattern 2.1 Achieve Big through Small 78
Pattern 2.2 Descale Before You Scale 86
Pattern 2.3 Scale Agility, Not Agile, Vertically Then Sideways 88
Chapter 3 Optimization Over One Way; Invite Over Inflict 92
Antipattern 3.1 One Size Fits All 94
Antipattern 3.2 Inflict over Invite 101
Pattern 3.1 Not One Size Fits AH 103
Pattern 3.2 Invite over Inflict 122
Chapter 4 Leadership Will Make It or Break It 126
Antipattern 4.1 Do as I Say, Not as I Do 130
Antipattern 4.2 Psychologically Unsafe 133
Antipattern 4.3 Deterministic Mindset 142
Pattern 4.1 Leaders Go First 147
Pattern 4.2 Psychological Safety 151
Pattern 4.3 Emergent Mindset with Servant Leadership 157
Chapter 5 Build the Right Thing; Intelligent Flow 164
Antipattern 5.1 Local Optimization 167
Antipattern 5.2 Milestone-Driven Predicted Solutions 171
Antipattern 5.3 Headless Chickens 174
Antipattern 5.4 Start Starting 175
Pattern 5.1 Optimize for Fast End-to-End Flow 178
Pattern 5.2 Outcome Hypotheses 194
Pattern 5.3 Intelligent Flow 203
Pattern 5.4 Stop Starting, Start Finishing 205
Chapter 6 Build the Thing Right; Lean Control 210
Antipattern 6.1 Lack of Safety within Safety 213
Antipattern 6.2 Role-Based Safety Silos 216
Antipattern 6.3 Fixed Mindset to Risk 222
Pattern 6.1 Safety within Safety 225
Pattern 6.2 Organize Safety by Value Stream 227
Pattern 6.3 Lean Control 233
Chapter 7 Continuous Attention to Technical Excellence 248
Antipattern 7.1 Going Faster Leads to Going Slower 251
Antipattern 7.2 Agile Hollow Shell 256
Antipattern 7.3 Misalignment of Teams and Architecture 258
Antipattern 7.4 Tools over People 261
Pattern 7.1 Go Slower to Go Faster 265
Pattern 7.2 Continuous Technical Excellence 274
Pattern 7.3 Architect and Organize for Flow 277
Pattern 7.4 Smart People and Smart Teams with Robot Friends 282
Chapter 8 Create a Learning Ecosystem 288
Antipattern 8.1 Information and Learning Silos 289
Antipattern 8.2 Outputs over Outcomes 292
Antipattern 8.3 Bubble Effect 293
Antipattern 8.4 Applying a Deterministic Approach to an Emergent Domain 295
Antipattern 8.5 Weaponized Metrics 296
Pattern 8.1 Optimize for Learning 299
Pattern 8.2 Nested Learning with Built-in Feedback Loops 305
Pattern 8.3 Communicate, Communicate, Communicate 310
Pattern 8.4 Be Comfortable with Uncertainty 316
Pattern 8.5 Measure for Learning 317
Chapter 9 The Best Time to Plant a Tree Is Twenty Years Ago; the Second Best Time Is Now 326
Bibliography 341
Notes 353
Index 361
Acknowledgments 382
About the Authors 385