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.
