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 Amazonbest-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 Who This Book Is For Besides IT consultants The Agile Consultant will
also appeal to developer teams internal IT staffers and their managers and to executives
leading the transition to agile development.
