The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations

Discover how to implement and operate in an Agile manner at every level of your enterprise and at every point from idea to delivery. Learn how Agile-mature organizations adapt nimbly to microchanges in market conditions. Learn cutting-edge practices and concepts as you extend your implementation of Agile through the entire enterprise to meet customer needs.

Veteran Agile coach Mario Moreira argues that two critical conditions must be conscientiously cultivated at a company before it can expect to reap in full measure the business benefits of mature Agile. First, individuals at every level must be committed to the mindset and the implementation of practices rigorously focused on delivering value to the customer. Second, all employees must be empowered to take ownership. This holistic transformation wrenches the status quo and provokes a strong focus where customers and employees matter.

What You'll Learn

• Establish an idea pipeline to quickly and productively evolve customer value through all levels of the enterprise
• Incorporate a discovery mindset―experimental, incremental, design, and divergent thinking―and fast feedback loops to increase the odds that what you build aligns more closely to what customer wants
• Leverage Lean Canvas, personas, story mapping, value stream mapping, Cost of Delay, servant leadership, self-organization, and more to deliver optimum value to customers
• Use continuous agile budgeting and idea pipelines at the senior levels of the enterprise to enable you to adapt to the speed of the market
• Reinvent human resources, portfolio management, finance, and many areas of management toward new roles in the enablement of customer value
• Map a top-to-bottom and end-to-end holistic view of your Agile galaxy to gauge where you are today and where you’d like to go in your Agile future
• Be truly Agile throughout your enterprise, focused on customer value and employees above all else

在這本書中，你將學習如何在企業的各個層面以及從想法到交付的每個階段實施和運營敏捷方法。你將學習敏捷成熟的組織如何靈活適應市場條件的微小變化。通過擴展敏捷實施到整個企業，以滿足客戶需求，你將學習最前沿的實踐和概念。

資深敏捷教練Mario Moreira認為，在公司能夠完全享受成熟敏捷的業務益處之前，必須在公司中培養兩個關鍵條件。首先，每個層面的個人都必須致力於思維方式和實踐的實施，這些實踐嚴格關注向客戶提供價值。其次，所有員工都必須被賦予主人翁的權力。這種整體轉型顛覆了現狀，並引起了對客戶和員工的強烈關注。

你將學到以下內容：
- 建立一個想法管道，通過企業的各個層面快速且有產出地演進客戶價值
- 採用發現思維-實驗、增量、設計和發散思維-以及快速反饋循環，增加你所建立的內容與客戶需求更緊密的一致性
- 利用Lean Canvas、人物角色、故事映射、價值流映射、延遲成本、服務領導、自組織等方法，為客戶提供最佳價值
- 在企業的高層使用持續敏捷預算和想法管道，使你能夠適應市場的速度
- 重新塑造人力資源、組合管理、財務和管理的許多領域，以在實現客戶價值的能力方面扮演新角色
- 繪製一個從頂部到底部、從頭到尾的整體敏捷視圖，評估你目前的狀態以及你在敏捷未來中想要達到的目標
- 在整個企業中真正實現敏捷，將客戶價值和員工放在首位

這本書適合以下讀者：
- 高管和高級管理人員；公司內敏捷贊助人；ScrumMasters和敏捷教練、倡導者和顧問；項目管理和質量保證主管（PMOs和AMOs）；組合管理人員；產品經理和產品擁有者；市場和業務經理；功能、中層和資源管理人員；工程主管和管理人員；跨職能工程/Scrum團隊；以及企業家和風險投資家。