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Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
Winner of the Bronze Medal in Leadership from the 2021 Axiom Business Book Awards.
It’s no secret that we are living in the Digital Age. Technology companies make up seven of the world’s ten largest firms by market capitalization. Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals the patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. Through his decades of experience in the technology world, Smart provides business leaders with a blueprint for creating a world-class organization of the future.
It’s no secret that we are living in the Digital Age. Technology companies make up seven of the world’s ten largest firms by market capitalization. And the key to their success is the key to all modern organizations.
Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals the patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. Through his decades of experience in the technology world, Smart provides business leaders with a blueprint for creating a world-class organization of the future.
Through Agile and Lean ways of working, business leaders can empower teams to improve production, grow together, and create better services for their customers.
These better ways of working have overflowed from the IT department to every corner of successful organizations, taking root in every industry from aerospace to accounting, insurance to shipping.
This book is not about software development. It is not a book about the computer industry. This book is about applying agility across the entire organization. It’s a book that will put you at the front of change and ahead of the competition.
Learn the definition of Better Value Soon Safer Happier and how antipatterns prevent you from achieving it.
Written and designed with the reader in mind, this book is specifically written and designed to allow you to concentrate on each chapter and antipattern/pattern-set to fit your specific context.
Discover the 26 antipatterns, 26 patterns, and 29 principles that will help guide an organization to desired outcomes and Better Value Sooner Safer Happier.
This resource-rich book should be on the desk of every practitioner across the entire organization.
Jon is co-founder and CEO of Sooner Safer Happier. Jon is a business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach. Jon has been an agile and lean practitioner since the early 1990s. Jon helps large organizations deliver better value sooner, safer and happier through better ways of working. He is the lead author of the award-winning and bestselling Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Business Agility.
"MYLES OGILVIE has led, supported, and coached change initiatives within large and small enterprises for over twenty-five years. An advocate of no-nonsense problem-solving, he seeks to build transparency, improve collaboration, and enable outcomes that produce Better Value Sooner Safer Happier During 2016, when leading ways of working for a major UK investment bank during a period of intense regulatory and controls scrutiny, Myles applied lean and agile principles to risk management in the product development process. He is now a passionate advocate of patterns that can help foster a safer, leaner, and more innovative controls culture. "
SIMON ROHRER has been a hands on practitioner across both software engineering and enterprise architecture for over twenty-six years, and has had a passion for agile software development since picking up the eXtreme Programming white book in 1999. He’s passionate about an eclectic and pragmatic approach to modern ways of working, incorporating lean, agile, systems thinking, DevOps and other principles and practices at the right pace and in a human context in enterprises, typically with a legacy of existing technology and a drive to do things better.
Zsolt Berend is a business agility practitioner, coach, and trainer. He helps global organizations on their journey to achieving Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. He began his early career as a research fellow in astronomy, and then spent twenty years across industry sectors in various roles applying agile and lean practices, mainly in telecom, healthcare, financial services, and consulting. He was the global chair of the Agile Community of Practice at Barclays with more than 2,500 members, and with the Ways of Working Center of Enablement team, won “Best Internal Agile Team” at the Agile Awards 2016. He writes on Medium and is a speaker at conferences and meetups. His passion is data, measurements, insights, and the creation of learning organizations.
Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge, Creator of Cynefin
VP, Global Technology, Nike
coauthor of Team of Teams and CEO of CrossLead
Product Evangelist, Amplitude
Co-Author of Team of Teams, CEO of CrossLead
Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge, and Creator of Cynefin
Researcher, Advisor, Investor, Director, Ex-COO/CIO Santander, Barclays, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, PNC, Citi, Fonterra
Executive Coach, NED, Strategic Advisor and Avid Agilist
Professor and Deputy Dean, London Business School
Non Executive Director and Former CTIO of AP Moller Maersk
Ways of Working Enablement Leader, Nationwide Building Society
EVP Transformation, U.S. Bank
CIO, Trade & Working Capital, Barclays
Head of Digital and Data, HSBC Securities Services
Experienced Enterprise Leader on Agile Ways of Working
Co-Founder and CEO, Business Agility Institute
Vice President and Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile
Co-Author of Team Topologies
Business Advisor, Entrepreneur, and Author of Unlearn and Co-Author of Lean Enterprise
Bestselling Author of The Unicorn Project and The Phoenix Project, Researcher, and Multiple Award-Winning CTO
Independent Board Director and Advisor, Former CIO/COO Barclays, Societe Generale, Nomura
Seek, Westpac, Telstra, RBS, Nationwide
CEO, Tasktop
GM for Enterprise Transformation, Westpac
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CIO, Volkswagon Financial Services UK
President of the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) and Head of Business Agility at Riot Games
Co-Creator of Discipline Agile
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