The Agile Consultant: Guiding Clients to Enterprise Agility

Learn the agile philosophy of lean processes, incremental delivery, deep client participation, decentralized authority, and just-in-time planning to bring speed, creativity, empowerment and increased productivity to product development. This book is your guide to becoming the go-to advisor for the enterprise agile transition.

Many organizations have brought in agile coaches and achieved great progress in software development productivity, only to find teams slipping back into old methods as they encounter enterprise resistance and dysfunction. The consultative skills required to engage at the enterprise level differ greatly from those needed to coach teams in agile practices. Agile coaches and consultants need to up their game to successfully partner with executives, managers, and PMOs to evolve from traditional methods to a lean, agile mindset. The Agile Consultant, by former Intel Worldwide Project Management Director and agile expert Rick Freedman, author of Amazon best-seller The IT Consultant, shows how to overcome transition challenges and move beyond team-level practice coaching to guide the entire organization to enterprise agility.

Agile methods are displacing traditional, process-heavy project management techniques, and are poised to migrate from software development to the rest of IT, and to the entire enterprise. Agile’s rapid adoption proves a simple truth: agility works!

Agile methods are here to stay, and will continue to expand within the organization. Enterprises are rapidly moving beyond agile development to agile IT, agile marketing, and agile strategic planning. Enterprises need agile coaches and consultants to guide them towards achieving the benefits of agility.

What You'll Learn 

• Instill effective agile practices across the enterprise
• Coach teams, managers, and executives in learning, adopting, and practicing lean and agile strategies
• Diagnose the roadblocks and obstacles most organizations encounter during the transition to agile
• Use recognized change-management techniques to guide the enterprise to agility while minimizing disruption and resistance
• Navigate the many challenges that can derail the transition to agility
• Demonstrate the critical mix of facilitation, interpersonal, and relationship skills to help organizations succeed with agile
• Guide the corporate culture toward agility from the top down and the bottom up
• Evolve from old school project management thinking to a lean, agile mindset

學習敏捷哲學的精益流程、增量交付、深度客戶參與、權力下放和即時規劃，以加快產品開發速度、創造力、授權和生產力。本書將指導您成為企業敏捷轉型的首席顧問。

許多組織引入敏捷教練，在軟體開發生產力方面取得了巨大進展，但當他們遇到企業的阻力和功能障礙時，團隊往往會回到舊有的方法。在企業層面上進行咨詢所需的技能與教練團隊的敏捷實踐所需的技能有很大的不同。敏捷教練和顧問需要提升自己的能力，與高管、經理和項目管理辦公室合作，從傳統方法進化到精益敏捷思維。《敏捷顧問》一書由前英特爾全球項目管理總監和敏捷專家Rick Freedman撰寫，他還是亞馬遜暢銷書《IT顧問》的作者，該書展示了如何克服轉型挑戰，從團隊層面的實踐教練轉向引導整個組織實現企業敏捷。

敏捷方法正在取代傳統的繁瑣項目管理技術，並有望從軟體開發擴展到整個IT領域，以及整個企業。敏捷的快速普及證明了一個簡單的事實：敏捷有效！敏捷方法已經來到，並將在組織內繼續擴展。企業正在迅速從敏捷開發轉向敏捷IT、敏捷營銷和敏捷戰略規劃。企業需要敏捷教練和顧問來引導他們實現敏捷的好處。

您將學到什麼：
- 在整個企業中灌輸有效的敏捷實踐
- 教導團隊、經理和高管學習、採用和實踐精益和敏捷策略
- 診斷組織在轉型到敏捷過程中遇到的障礙和阻礙
- 使用公認的變革管理技巧引導企業實現敏捷，同時最大程度地減少干擾和阻力
- 應對可能使轉型失敗的許多挑戰
- 展示促進、人際關係和溝通技巧的重要組合，以幫助組織成功實現敏捷
- 從傳統的項目管理思維轉變為精益敏捷思維
- 本書適合IT顧問、開發團隊、內部IT人員及其管理者，以及領導敏捷開發轉型的高管。