The Agile Executive

Author : Marianne Broadbent
Publisher : Melbourne Books
ISBN 13 : 1925556557
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agile Executive written by Marianne Broadbent and published by Melbourne Books. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marianne Broadbent is a leadership and executive search consultant who works every day with women and men making career decisions and life choices. Her multiple careers, from high school teacher to global business executive, have been experienced alongside raising four children in a ‘guilt free environment’ and sustaining long term relationships. She provides sharp and informed insights through working with organisations and teams to build and sustain great talent. She shares her personal experiences of taking career risks, making multiple choices and managing a ‘blended life’ in our new modern paradigm where careers aren’t as linear as they once were, and diversity and risks are required to achieve success. She complements this with the thoughts and words of 24 executives who willingly provide their personal and career perspectives on their own trade-offs and ‘getting on with it’.

Author : Paul Ellarby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480229037
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agile Executive Primer written by Paul Ellarby and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile software development is being adopted by more and more organizations, but where do you turn for practical advice and learn about key aspects of agile adoption that will affect your business? This primer takes a pragmatic view of agile methodologies, identifies some of the pitfalls other organizations have experienced, and looks at agile adoption from a cultural perspective. In short, it points the executive in the right direction in a brief, easy-to-read, to-the-point way.

Author : Marjolijn Feringa
Publisher : Van Haren
ISBN 13 : 9401806977
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agile focus in governance written by Marjolijn Feringa and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 2020 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: · Are you member of either the management team or the board and do you see the need to adapt your organization to Agile? Do you intend to make the organization more agile? · Are you a coach helping organizations in the transformation to becoming more agile? And are you planning to support this transition using a bottom-up or top-down approach? In this pocket guide you will find a practical approach on how to handle this. Governing an organization in a fast-changing world. And all this although the issues of the day require a lot of your attention and can distract you from the results you want to achieve. The authors consider how to operationalize the organization’s strategic goals and consequently the governance of the entire organization. The authors start from the position of: • Clarifying what has to be achieved in the next quarter in order to achieve the strategic goals. • Introducing a system of short cyclical adjustments, with which you can respond to changing demand from customers or emerging laws and regulations. • Working closely together as management team or board towards the long-term strategic goals and preventing everyone within the organization from following their own goals. • Bringing more focus on the operationalization of the strategy, less ‘fire-fighting’ and greater emphasis on fire prevention. • Getting a clear picture of what prevents your employees from doing their jobs effectively. Will you succeed in removing the barriers holding back your organization? The core message of this pocket guide is application of the FOCUS board. This is a visual approach to management and a strong tool for governing the organization. When this is applied, it will result in collaboration between all layers of the organization, enable short cyclical adjustment and provide a clear focus on achieving the strategic goals.

Author : Mike F. Richardon
Publisher : No Limit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781614660217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wheelspin written by Mike F. Richardon and published by No Limit Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a manifesto for the Why, What, When, Where, How and Who of agility. Using stories from his experiences as a manager, executive and CEO in the Oil and Gas, Aerospace and Automotive industries, Mike Richardson explores agility in everyday terms. He explains how aircraft accidents, the BP Oil Spill and Toyota's safety recalls relate to your agility challenge in your role in your business. He explains the agility of a jet fighter plane and a jet fighter pilot and how you can employ similar techniques in your organization.

Author : Karla Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941870211
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agile-Minded Executive written by Karla Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agile-Minded Executive shows that becoming a better thinker lies in the mindful internal shifts we make to synthesize what our emotions and logic-our whole brain-provide us. The complex challenges agile-thinking executives face in this volatile world require them to adapt their minds to the shifting landscape, develop a more nimble approach to assessing the situation, and rapidly craft solutions. This book points executives in the right direction to do so.

Author : Neil Perkin
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0749480408
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation written by Neil Perkin and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation is an in-depth look at transforming businesses so they are fit for purpose in a digitally enabled world. It is a guide for all those needing to better understand, implement and lead digital transformation in the workplace. It sets aside traditional thinking and outdated strategies to explain what steps need to be taken for an organization to become truly agile. It addresses how to build organizational velocity and establish iterative working, remove unnecessary process, embed innovation, map strategy to motivation and develop talent to succeed. Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation provides guidance on how to set the pace and frequency for change and shows how to break old habits and reform the behaviours of a workforce to embed digital transformation, achieve organizational agility and ensure high performance. Full of practical advice, examples and real-life insights from organizational development professionals at the leading edge of digital transformation, this book is an essential guide to building an agile business.

Author : Nils Davis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983838934
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Product Manager Handbook written by Nils Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Product management isn't about you and it isn't about your product. It's about solving problems for your customers, creating a solution, and taking it to market." When I started in product management, I had a lot of questions, like "What is product management?" It's a common question still, but most people don't have a good answer. After all these years, the same questions keep coming up. I see them on forums, I hear them when I talk to new and experienced product managers, and I still do not see them being answered well or usefully. So I wrote this book, with the answers to the questions I always had. You'll learn: The real reason people choose to buy a product - it's not about how "good" the product is! How to get the very best from your developers. The 5-word phrase that can accelerate sales and marketing. The best ways to talk to executives and customers about what you're building. Among other critical information, you'll find a powerful framework for thinking about product management - and even for talking to your Mom about what you do. The framework provides an infrastructure for most of The Secret Product Manager Handbook. I provide a concrete and explicit explanation of why product management is so important for businesses, including a calculation of the true business value of product management. And the book is full of specific techniques and practices for transforming your product management career. What People Are Saying "Nuggets of product management wisdom and ideas you'll want to hang on your monitor. The book is like having a conversation with a mentor." (Ken Hanson, Growth Product Manager) The summary of product management - identify market problems, guide the creation of solutions, and take the solutions to market - is powerful. As a former engineer, it's especially important to be reminded of the third point" (Frank Licea, Product Manager) "The intro is one of the clearest and smartest explanations of the value a product manager should bring to the table I've ever read." (Luca Candela, VP of Product Management)

Author : Evan Leybourn
Publisher : IT Governance Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184928492X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directing The Agile Organisation written by Evan Leybourn and published by IT Governance Ltd. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 looks at your role as a manager. How will your responsibilities change under Agile Business Management? What techniques can you use to manage your staff? Chapter 2 discusses your organisation’s relationship and interaction with its customers. What are their needs and goals, and how can you work together to achieve them? Chapter 3 provides the organisational context in which Agile Business Management operates. It discusses lean management structures and the techniques to manage different types of staff, teams and organisations. Chapter 4 looks at how you and your team work the “agile way” and describes tools and techniques to help optimise workflow, exploit change and manage customer requirements. The book closes with a look at associated financial models that support your Agile organisation, the processes you can use to run an Agile Business Management transformation, and the first steps to take towards that transformation.

Author : Scott Ambler
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539852964
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Executive's Guide to Disciplined Agile written by Scott Ambler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agile community has figured out how to build and then continually improve very high-performance software development teams. This is akin to creating a race car engine and then evolving it to get more power, better fuel efficiency, and greater speed. Sadly in many cases we take these great engines, put them into an organizational tractor, and then complain that we're not winning the race. What we need to do is take our great race car engines (our development teams), put them into a race car (a DevOps ecosystem), have a great pit crew and driver (an effective IT organization), and then provide somewhere to race (an organization that can leverage IT to make money). That's what this book is all about - Moving from optimizing team performance to optimizing the entire enterprise. Business agility - being an adaptive, lean, responsive, and learning organization - is the race that enterprises need to win today. Yet there is no quick fix, no silver bullet, to attain business agility. This is a multi-year journey requiring hard work, experimentation, and most importantly a willingness to improve. The Disciplined Agile framework lowers risks and provides a path to accelerate your journey to business agility. The framework is unique in that it is the only one that puts all the pieces together into a cohesive enterprise roadmap for business agility transformation. This book begins with an overview of the challenges and opportunities that organizations face. We then describe seven principles that provide the underpinnings of the Disciplined Agile framework. Then the book works through Disciplined Agile Delivery (how to build a world-class engine), Disciplined DevOps (the race car), Disciplined Agile IT (the race car and its team), and what it means to be a Disciplined Agile Enterprise (the racing business). The book ends with a plan for starting with an Agile transformation and then evolving into a long-term continuous improvement strategy. Do you have the discipline it takes to win the race to business agility?

Author : Eric Brechner
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0735698953
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agile Project Management with Kanban written by Eric Brechner and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal: Agile Project Management with Kanban. Author Eric Brechner pioneered Kanban within the Xbox engineering team at Microsoft. Now he shows you exactly how to make it work for your team. Think of this book as {28}Kanban in a box.