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12 Steps to Flow: The New Framework for Business Agility
12 Steps to Flow The New Framework for Business Agility Author:Haydn Shaughessy, Fin Goulding This book is a must read for anybody in the agile community or anybody wishing to acquire agile skills and know-how. It is a companion to the authors' widely praised Flow: A Handbook for Change-Makers. — The authors are not only practitioners but also pioneers of new agile techniques. — Goulding is a practising CIO who encourages his teams to ex... more »periment with and implement new agile processes;He has helped pioneer total Kanban or visualisation across the enterprise;The book is built from first hand experience and interviews with people whose work lives have changed by taking a new approach to agile;And not just agile software development but an overall agile business mindset.Leading agile and Devops practitioners as well as business leaders have endorsed Flow:
"In Flow, Fin Goulding and Haydn Shaughnessy provide a wonderful combination of principles and practices for technology leaders, not only for improving their teams' outcomes, but to help thumbing all other business stakeholders along on the journey too. Highly recommended." - Gene Kim, co-author The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook.
"Flow is all about creating the right culture for change through real empowerment, team diversity and interactive visual engagement and constant feedback loops. Easy to read, well-structured and frequently used for reference. Highly recommended for anyone involved in delivering change, especially those who wonder why innovation does not happen." - Mark Simons, Global Cloud programme Director Aviva Plc.
The authors wrote the book in order to enhance the career prospects and business understanding of:
software engineers and developersdigital marketersscrum mastersagile coachesbusiness analystsproduct ownersteam leaders12 Steps to Flow is designed to help people to improve their careers in the agile enterprise. It takes the principles of the agile manifesto and provides a light framework for teams and enterprises to reach agile objectives. It helps engage people in creative collaboration and in the process of "being agile" rather than just trying to do agile.
Flow is an extension of the skills offered in scrum and Kanban training, particularly the new Scrum Kanban Flow, but will also appeal to colleagues in digital marketing, innovation and strategy. New ways to work involve everybody in learning new skills. Its major difference is that embraces the whole business and provides techniques for better collaboration across functions.
Flow: A Handbook for Change-Makers explained what needs to change in the modern enterprise particularly in the way IT and software relate to and work with the business, 12 Steps tells you the how. It is literally 12 steps to enterprise agility and personal growth.
"In the race for agile transformation somebody has to spell out what the enterprise looks like once many more people are empowered. At last, in Flow we have that document and with it the start of a movement for a new way to work. Shaughnessy and Goulding use very practical examples to show us how self-organising, empowered teams can go about co-designing the best way to get work done. Innovation becomes Flow, the enterprise becomes agile." Peter Hinssen, author The Day After Tomorrow« less