Agile for Everybody: Creating Fast, Flexible, and Customer-First Organizations

The Agile movement provides real, actionable answers to the question that keeps many company leaders awake at night: How do we stay successful in a fast-changing and unpredictable world? Agile has already transformed how modern companies build and deliver software. This practical book demonstrates how entire organizations—from product managers and engineers to marketers and executives—can put Agile to work.

Author Matt LeMay explains Agile in clear, jargon-free terms and provides concrete and actionable steps to help any team put its values and principles into practice. Examples from a wide variety of organizations, including small nonprofits and global financial enterprises, bring to life the on-the-ground realities of Agile across industries and functions.

• Understand exactly what Agile is and why it matters
• Use Agile to address your organization’s specific needs and goals
• Take customer centricity from theory into practice
• Stop wasting time in "report and critique" meetings and start making better decisions
• Create a harmonious cycle of learning, collaborating, and delivering
• Learn from Agile experts at companies like IBM, Spotify, and Coca-Cola

• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
• Product Management in Practice: A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century
• Agile Project Management For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
• Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban
• Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
• The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems
• Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success
• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
• Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
• The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done