Being Agile [electronic resource] : Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile /
Moreira, Mario E.author.
Being Agile is your roadmap to successfully transforming your organization to an Agile culture. Veteran agile coach Mario Moreira teaches new adopters how to implement a robust Agile framework to derive from it the maximum business benefit in terms of customer value, revenue, and employee engagement.  Agile is a ubiquitous watchword in the corporate world, but only a minority of companies understand and practice what they pay lip service to. Too many content themselves with half-baked approximations such as Fragile (fragile Agile), ScrumBut (Scrum but not the practices), and Scrum Fall (mini-waterfalls in the sprints). Moreira shows maturing early adopters how to bridge the chasm between going through the motions of doing Agile and genuinely being Agile. After a high-level synopsis of Agile's values and principles, methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, Leam, VFQ, and XP), and roles, Moreira plunges into the nitty-gritty of how to apply the ready, implement, coach, and hone (RICH) deployment model to all phases of a project in such a way as to embody and inculcate agile values and principles at the team level and promote agile transformation across your organization's culture.
""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Getting Started""; ""Purpose of This Book""; ""What You Will Learn""; ""Who This Book Is For""; ""How to Navigate This Book""; ""Chapter 2: Crossing the Agile Chasm""; ""Agile Is Really a Culture Change""; ""Technology Adoption Lifecycle""; ""Agile Cultural Chasm""; ""Chapter 3: Business Benefits of Being Agile""; ""Show Me the Money""; ""Engaging Your Customers and Employees""; ""Agile Value to Incentive Differentiator (AVID)""; ""Elusive Customer Value""; ""Agile Business Strategy""
""Chapter 4: Importance of Customer Engagement""""Continuous Customer Engagement""; ""Dedicated Team Business Representative""; ""Minimum Viable Product (MVP)""; ""Getting to Continuous Customer Engagement""; ""Chapter 5: Importance of Employee Engagement""; ""Employee Empowerment""; ""Self-Organizing Teams""; ""Evidence of Self-Organizing""; ""Stepping Up""; ""Understanding Value-Added Work""; ""Customers and Employees Matter: Are We There Yet?""; ""Chapter 6: Foundations of Agile""; ""Agile Is a Set of â€?Values and Principlesâ€?.â€?.â€?. Seriously!""
""Manifesto of Agile Software Development""""Principles behind the Agile Manifesto""; ""Introduction to Agile Processes and Methodologies""; ""Scrum""; ""Extreme Programming (XP)""; ""Dynamic Systems Development Method""; ""Kanban""; ""Lean Software Development""; ""Value, Flow, Quality""; ""Back to Values and Principles""; ""Chapter 7: Ready, Implement, Coach, and Hone (RICH) Deployment Model""; ""Readiness Activities for Agile Transformation""; ""Implementation Activities for Agile Transformation""; ""Coaching Activities for Agile Transformation""
""Honing Activities for Agile Transformation""""Are You Ready?""; ""Chapter 8: Motivations for Moving to an Agile Culture""; ""Communicating Motivations""; ""Adapting Rewards""; ""Managing Resistance""; ""Common Motivations for Moving to Agile""; ""Benefit of Establishing a Common Understanding of Agile""; ""Aligning Storytelling with the Culture You Want""; ""Building the Agile Culture You Want""; ""Chapter 9: Achieving an Agile Mindset""; ""Dissecting the Agile Principles""; ""Satisfy Customer with Valuable Software""; ""Welcoming Change to Requirements""; ""Frequent/Continuous Delivery""
""Business and Development Work Together""""Trust Motivated Individuals""; ""Promote Face-to-Face Communication""; ""Working Software as Measure of Progress""; ""Sustainable Pace""; ""Technical Excellence""; ""Simplicity""; ""Self-Organizing Teams""; ""Reflection for Improvement""; ""A Group Exercise on the Principles""; ""Chapter 10: Evaluating Executive Support and Team Willingness""; ""Agile Personality Types""; ""Innovator""; ""Champion""; ""Workhorse""; ""Bandwagon Jumper""; ""Cowboy""; ""Deceiver""; ""Denier""; ""Executive/Senior Management Support""; ""Support Needed from Executives""
""Evaluate and Increase Executive Support""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes index.
Being Agile is your roadmap to successfully transforming your organization to an Agile culture. Veteran agile coach Mario Moreira teaches new adopters how to implement a robust Agile framework to derive from it the maximum business benefit in terms of customer value, revenue, and employee engagement.  Agile is a ubiquitous watchword in the corporate world, but only a minority of companies understand and practice what they pay lip service to. Too many content themselves with half-baked approximations such as Fragile (fragile Agile), ScrumBut (Scrum but not the practices), and Scrum Fall (mini-waterfalls in the sprints). Moreira shows maturing early adopters how to bridge the chasm between going through the motions of doing Agile and genuinely being Agile. After a high-level synopsis of Agile's values and principles, methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, Leam, VFQ, and XP), and roles, Moreira plunges into the nitty-gritty of how to apply the ready, implement, coach, and hone (RICH) deployment model to all phases of a project in such a way as to embody and inculcate agile values and principles at the team level and promote agile transformation across your organization's culture.
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