The Agile Executive Primer

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Process over results

• I seem to be stuck in a run of process over
  results that is, organizations that are far
  more interested in getting the practices and
  techniques right without understanding what
  results these techniques are designed to deliver.
• Let me give you an example. I was recently
  working with an established team who had a fairly
  poor history of delivering working software.
  Their iteration planning meetings run on-time and
  with the right people, their standups never go
  over 14 minutes, their stories are in the classic
  as a.I want.so that. format, and they have
  retrospectives at the end of each iteration.Yet
  they constantly fail to deliver software. Hmmm.

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The Agile Executive Primer book

• For some time I have been talking with executives
  of companies CTOs CIOs, Vice Presidents
  that are starting their agile adoption, and
  helping these leaders understand the changes
  their organization will likely go through. One
  thing I was asked for time and again was a brief,
  focused book that explained the agile concepts
  they must understand, and the organizational
  issues they need to pay attention to.

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Leadership in the Agile Enterprise

• Many companies are using an agile approach to
  software development, greatly improving their
  quality and value of delivery. However, enabling
  agility throughout the organization that is,
  moving from doing agile to being agile
  takes a different type of management. We call
  this an adaptive leadership style, where we look
  at the way we manage the business different,
  based on speed of delivery, and value delivered.