Agile Management
Subtitle: Leadership in an Agile Environment
By: by Ángel Medinilla
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9783642289095
Subjects: Organization/Planning; Information Systems; Business planning; Computer science; Software engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Project management
Description: <p>If you have tried to implement Agile in your organization, you have probably learned a lot about development practices, teamwork, processes and tools, but too little about how to manage such an organization. Yet managerial support is often the biggest impediment to successfully adopting Agile, and limiting your Agile efforts to those of the development teams while doing the same old-style management will dramatically limit the ability of your organization to reach the next Agile level.</p><p>Ángel Medinilla will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of what Agile means to an organization and the manager’s role in such an environment, i.e., how to manage, lead and motivate self-organizing teams and how to create an Agile corporate culture. Based on his background as a “veteran” Agile consultant for companies of all sizes, he delivers insights and experiences, points out possible pitfalls, presents practical approaches and possible scenarios, also including detailed suggestions for further reading.</p><p>If you are a manager, team leader, evangelist, change agent (or whatever nice title) and if you want to push Agile further in your organization, then this is your book. You will read how to change the paradigm of what management is about: it is not about arbitrary decisions, constant supervision and progress control, and the negotiation of changing requirements. It is about motivation, self-organization, responsibility, and the exploitation of all project stakeholders’ knowledge. We live in a different world than the one that most management experts of the 20<sup>th</sup> century describe, and companies that strive for success and excellence will need a new kind of manager – Agile managers.</p>
Table of contents: title: A Brief History of Management; title: Lean and Agile in a Nutshell; title: The Agile Manager’s Role; title: Motivating the Agile Workforce; title: Self Organization; title: Agile Structures: Scaling Agility; title: Managing Capacity and Workload; title: Agile Culture and Driving Change; title: Final Thoughts.