Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile by Kurt Cagle (English) Paperback Book

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Agile is broken. Most Agile transformations struggle. According to an Allied Market Research study, "63% of respondents stated the failure of agile implementation in their organizations." The problems with Agile start at the top of most organizations with executive leadership not getting what agile is or even knowing the difference between success and failure in agile. Agile transformation is a journey, and most of that journey consists of people learning and trying new approaches in their own work. An agile organization can make use of coaches and training to improve their chances of success. But even then, failure remains because many Agile ideas are oversimplifications or interpreted in an extreme way, and many elements essential for success are missing. Coupled with other ideas that have been dogmatically forced on teams, such as "agile team rooms", and "an overall inertia and resistance to change in the Agile community," the Agile movement is ripe for change since its birth twenty years ago. "Agile 2" represents the work of fifteen experienced Agile experts, distilled into Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile by seven members of the team. Agile 2 values these pairs of attributes when properly balanced: thoughtfulness and prescription; outcomes and outputs, individuals and teams; business and technical understanding; individual empowerment and good leadership; adaptability and planning. With a new set of Agile principles to take Agile forward over the next 20 years, Agile 2 is applicable beyond software and hardware to all parts of an agile organization including "Agile HR", "Agile Finance", and so on. Like the original "Agile", "Agile 2", is just a set of ideas - powerful ideas. To undertake any endeavor, a single set of ideas is not enough. But a single set of ideas can be a powerful guide.

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Agile 2 Is an Improved Agile The Agile movement took us away from big plans, micromanagement, and projects-by-numbers. It shifted the focus to small teams, to incremental deliveries, and to collaboration and self-sufficiency. But it dismissed the importance of leadership, structure, forethought, and individual differences. It defined one-size-fits-all practices, often favoring some styles of work over others. Despite its technical roots, Agile also quickly devalued the importance of engineering; and it did not even mention the importance of information and data - things that are so critical today. These are not small things. A fresh start was needed -- a "reboot". A team of fifteen experts in product design, program management, system engineering, leadership, business, human resources, learning theory, and of course Agile and DevOps came together to consider, What about Agile is important? What needs to be updated? and What is not quite right, but needs to be adjusted? The book Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile introduces and makes the case for why this approach is needed, explains Agile 2's big ideas, and shows how those ideas play out in an organization. Perfect for project managers of all sorts, team leaders, department heads, executives, and managers in organizations that have attempted to implement Agile, and the individual members of Agile project teams.

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Agile 2 Is an Improved Agile The Agile movement took us away from big plans, micromanagement, and projects-by-numbers. It shifted the focus to small teams, to incremental deliveries, and to collaboration and self-sufficiency. But it dismissed the importance of leadership, structure, forethought, and individual differences. It defined one-size-fits-all practices, often favoring some styles of work over others. Despite its technical roots, Agile also quickly devalued the importance of engineering; and it did not even mention the importance of information and data - things that are so critical today. These are not small things. A fresh start was needed -- a "reboot". A team of fifteen experts in product design, program management, system engineering, leadership, business, human resources, learning theory, and of course Agile and DevOps came together to consider, What about Agile is important? What needs to be updated? and What is not quite right, but needs to be adjusted? The book Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile introduces and makes the case for why this approach is needed, explains Agile 2's big ideas, and shows how those ideas play out in an organization. Perfect for project managers of all sorts, team leaders, department heads, executives, and managers in organizations that have attempted to implement Agile, and the individual members of Agile project teams.

Author Biography

CLIFF BERG is a consultant and founder of Agile Griffin, which specializes in the integration of Agile and DevOps.KURT CAGLE is a consultant and Community Editor of Data Science Central and is a Forbes contributor.LISA COONEY is the Agile Coach at Axios. She is on the program committee for the Business Agility Institute's conferences in New York City.PHILIPPA FEWELL is Managing Director of Agile Services at CCPace. She has trained and practiced Agile, including XP, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe for over 15 years.ADRIAN LANDER is Founder of Agnostic Agile.RAJ NAGAPPAN is Founder and CEO of Catum.MURRAY ROBINSON is an ICAgile Authorised Instructor and Scrum Master.

Table of Contents

About the Authors vii Acknowledgments xi Foreword xv Preface xix 1 How Did We Get Here? 1 2 Specific Problems 21 3 Leadership: The Core Issue 49 4 Ingredients That Are Needed 69 5 Kinds of Leadership Needed 121 6 What Effective Collaboration Looks Like 157 7 It's All About the Product 181 8 Product Design and Agile 2 191 9 Moving Fast Requires Real-Time Risk Management 205 10 A Transformation is a Journey 245 11 DevOps and Agile 2 275 12 Agile 2 at Scale 299 13 System Engineering and Agile 2 335 14 Agile 2 in Service Domains 363 15 Conclusion 383 Index 391

Details ISBN1119799279 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Year 2021 ISBN-10 1119799279 ISBN-13 9781119799276 Short Title Agile 2 Language English Format Paperback Subtitle The Next Iteration of Agile Pages 432 Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2021-04-29 UK Release Date 2021-04-29 NZ Release Date 2021-03-09 Author Murray Robinson DEWEY 005.1 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2021-04-29 AU Release Date 2021-02-18 We've got this

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