The Agile Culture: Leading through Trust and Ownership
“This is the Agile book I’ve been waiting for. Enough with the rituals of process. Let’s get intowhat really matters–creating the culture that teams need to thrive.”—Marty Cagan, founding partner, The Silicon Valley Product Group “A book full of practical tools and real-life stories–a great resource for every leader involvedin a serious Agile transformation.”—Hendrik Esser, director of portfolio and technology management, Ericsson “ ‘What is culture? How do we create a culture? What are our cultural problems?’ Thesequestions can have lofty, philosophical, theoretical answers that sound profound. Unfortunately,profundity rarely gets the job done. The authors have once again broken an importanttopic into easily understood parts. Not only do they make the questions understandable, theyprovide specific, actionable techniques for answering the questions and addressing the challenges.This book is as much a how-to as it is a what-is-it and a why-do-I-care book. Everybodywho is in a leadership role, or deals with people in leadership roles (that’d be just abouteveryone, right?) should read this.”—Steven “Doc” List, vice president of learning, Santeon Group “The content is phenomenal! Just an incredible distillation of years of experience.”—Christine DelPrete, senior director of technology, Amirsys, Inc.