Pragmatic Insights for Successfully Managing Your Unique Agile Team or Organization In many
organizations management is the biggest obstacle to successful Agile development.
Unfortunately reliable guidance on Agile management has been scarce indeed. Now leading Agile
manager Jurgen Appelo fills that gap introducing a realistic approach to leading managing
and growing your Agile team or organization. Writing for current managers and developers moving
into management Appelo shares insights that are grounded in modern complex systems theory
reflecting the intense complexity of modern software development. Appelo's Management 3.0 model
recognizes that today's organizations are living networked systems that you can't simply let
them run themselves and that management is primarily about people and relationships.
Management 3.0 doesn't offer mere checklists or prescriptions to follow slavishly: rather it
deepens your understanding of how organizations and Agile teams work and gives you tools to
solve your own problems. Drawing on his extensive experience as an Agile manager and trainer
Appelo identifies the most valuable elements of Agile management and helps you improve each of
them. Coverage includes Getting beyond Management 1.0 command hierarchies and Management 2.0
fads Understanding how complexity and non-linearity affect your organization-and why the
best-laid plans so often fail Giving teams the care and feeding they need to grow on their own
Defining boundaries and constraints so teams can succeed in alignment with company goals
Anticipating issues teams won't or can't resolve by themselves Sowing the seeds for a culture
of software craftsmanship Keeping your people active creative motivated and energized
Helping teams develop crucial missing skills and disciplines Crafting organizational networks
and communication flows that promote success Making change desirable-and making stagnation
painful Implementing continuous improvement that actually works Thoroughly pragmatic-and never
trendy-Jurgen Appelo's Management 3.0 will help you bring greater agility to any software
organization team or project.
