Agile Management: Leadership in an Agile Environment
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (597 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00A9YH9U6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 481 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Today, Proyectalis is considered the leading Agile consulting and coaching company in Spain and one of the best known in Europe, offering Scrum training and implementation to a worldwide spectrum of software, telco and internet companies. His contributions to the Agile community include several presentations on Slideshare, two blogs (Spanish / English), the official Spanish tra
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. 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.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. It is about motivation, self-organization, responsibility, and the exploitation of all project stakeholders’ knowledge. 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
M. "Get this book if you need an introduction to agile development." M. Tanik, ACM Computing Reviews, January 2013
Only through the first third, but have already learned a lot Just the first third of the book has been pretty helpful to me, and I like the author's style, and appreciate his copious references. The best book I've seen so far on how to _run_ Agile.. Excellent! Especially about the importance of Amazon Customer Excellent!Especially about the importance of culture. Jukka Nikki said I loved how author had distilled hard won wisdom and long. I loved how author had distilled hard won wisdom and long known secrets (which aren't widely discussed) to compact package. I didn't feel bored, there wasn't too much manifestation, but topics were very much down to earth and concentrated to what really matters. I have worked as scrum master and team leader and way too often seen that individuals, teams and management really don't align well: here we have lot to do as industry, but promise is that you can have motivated worke