Agile Leadership in Practice

This book illustrates the agile transformation journey of a consulting organization. It consists of nine main chapters, each focusing on specific aspects of transformation. These include establishing value in business, holistic recruitment and retention, innovating performance appraisals, rethinking organizational structure, redesigning leadership roles, streamlining measurement and reward systems, and improving career paths. Some specific processes, such as corporate decision making, SMILE (budget for business improvement at employee discretion), project selection, holiday leave, and career coaching are also described. All of the transformations described build up on Management 3.0, a collection of management principles and practices that fit perfectly in an agile world. The book is of practical relevance for managers and agile coaches who want to learn how to approach agile transformation.

Describes the practical implementation of Agile Leadership Offers an in-depth case study on applying Agile Leadership with Management 3.0 Includes a wide range of applications of management principles and techniques

Autorentext

Dominik Maximini is a highly experienced Agile leader, coach, Scrum Master, trainer and author. He is CEO at ValueRise Consulting GmbH, Germany, where he enables teams to live up to Agile values and improve their processes accordingly. His main assets are his passion for economical thinking and efficiency, paired with excellent analytical skills, all practiced in a broad organizational change context. This has allowed him to introduce Agile practices like Evo, Scrum and Management 3.0 into enterprises of varying sizes and industry focus. Dominik has also published several books and articles in the Scrum and Agile domain.

Inhalt
ForewordTable of Contents
Context is Everything Building Teams Changing Organizational Structure Changing Leadership Changing Focus Changing Measurement Systems Changing Reward Systems Changing Career Paths Changing Processes The Phases Appendix Abbreviations Literature Thank You! Index