Beyond Agile provides a broad but strong foundation for agile practices, but it doesn't stop there. After grounding us in solid theory, Beyond Agile takes us beyond the typical business book, diving deep into the ongoing practices of real teams doing real work. The stories bust many myths about agile and shares the human stories of real people and their struggles, trials and triumphs. Each story makes the complex and evolving topic of agile in the workplace engagingly clear and simple. Beyond Agile is a great, foundational and inspiring book. ~ Dave Gray, Author of Gamestorming and The Connected Company Software development is knowledge work. Knowledge work is always an evolving art. Beyond Agile examines 10 companies, mostly in the tech world, but also in innovative automotive and business consulting, that have actively evolved their processes. Using tools from Lean, Agile and other schools of management thought, these companies have actively engaged in continuous improvement. These stories are stories of success, failure, and success again. These are real stories of real businesses creating real products. No story is devoid of mis-steps. No magic bullets, other than understanding, are provided. Collecting stories from several continents and countries, these case studies cover the global evolution of an entire industry. This book is a must-read for anyone involved with knowledge workers, software developers and IT shops that seem unmanageable.

Beyond Agile: Tales of Continuous Improvement

Business & Money

Benson, Jim

van den Heuvel, Maritza

Ho, Joanne

Management & Leadership

Modus Cooperandi, Inc

Business runs on decisions.Business relies on estimates, plans, and projections - and we all know how accurate they tend to be. Careers are made, careers are broken based on perceived accuracy in estimation and planning.But what if the successes and failures of these projects were not based on the prowess of those making the plans? What if successes and failures were instead the result of a more complex set of events?What if our own cognitive biases - our own brains - were creating our inaccuracies, our poor assumptions, and our unreasonable expectations?Why Plans Fail directly addresses our ability to plan, to forecast, and to make decisions. Written by Jim Benson, author of the Shingo Research Award-winning Personal Kanban, urban planner, software developer, and business owner who has planned and built everything from small software projects, to houses, to urban freeway systems, Why Plans Fail is told by someone with much skin in the estimation and planning game. This short work is the first in the Modus Cooperandi MemeMachine series - which looks specifically at underlying issues that directly impact the success of teams, companies, and individuals. The Mememachine series is meant to start conversations and advance discussion.

Why Plans Fail: Why Business Decision Making is More than Just Business (MemeMachine)

Personal Kanban transformed how we think about our own personal productivity.Why Limit Your WIP will transform how organizations and teams think about and manage their work. The tale in this book will hurt, because you’ll have undoubtedly lived with the consequences of people being stretchedtoo thin, work constantly blocked or in queue, projects chronically late, and people getting burned out...~ Gene Kim author of The Phoenix Project from the ForewordWe are distracted.We are overburdened.We are unfocused.Our work suffers for this. Our companies suffer for this.We snatch failure from the jaws of success.Limiting WIP is the breakthrough strategy forstarting less and completing more.~Written by Jim Benson, author of the Shingo Research Award winning Personal Kanban, urban planner, software developer, and businessowner who has planned and built everything from small software projects, to houses, to urban freeway systems, Why Limit WP is told by someone who has watched many projects be born,run into problems, and ultimately fail due to overburden.This short work is the third in the Modus Cooperandi MemeMachine series-which looks specifically at underlying issues that directly impact the success of teams, companies, and individuals. The MemeMachine series is meant to start conversations and advance discussion.

Why Limit WIP: We are Drowning in Work (MemeMachine Series)

Business Culture

Les machines ont besoin d’être productives. Les personnes ont besoin d’être efficaces. Les livres sur la productivité focalisent leur attention sur « faire plus ». Jim et Tonianne veulent que vous vous concentriez sur « faire mieux ». Il s’agit de choisir le travail pertinent au bon moment: – reconnaître pourquoi nous faisons ce que nous faisons ; - comprendre l’impact de nos actions ; - créer de la valeur, et non seulement produire, pour nous-mêmes, nos familles, nos amis, nos collègues, pour notre postérité. Le Personal Kanban emprunte à la production manufacturière les principes Lean qui ont permis à l’industrie automobile japonaise de devenir le leader global sur le plan de la qualité, pour les appliquer au travail individuel et à celui de l’équipe. Tout ce que le Personal Kanban demande c’est de visualiser son travail et de limiter son travail en cours. Visualiser le travail nous permet de transformer une charge de travail à la fois conceptuelle et intimidante en un flux adapté au contexte que l’on peut facilement exécuter. Limiter notre travail en cours nous aide à terminer ce que nous entreprenons et à comprendre nos choix. Combinés, ces deux actes très simples améliorent notre façon de travailler et de prendre des décisions, nous aidant en cela à mieux équilibrer nos vies, tant personnelle, professionnelle que sociale. Le Personal Kanban ne fournit ni une ordonnance ni un plan, mais nous donne un cadre de compréhension pour notre travail et son contexte qui est tout à la fois flexible, orienté vers l’action et réaliste. Ce livre décrit pourquoi des étudiants, des familles, des chefs d’entreprise, de grandes compagnies multinationales ou encore des organisations internationales ont obtenu des résultats immédiats grâce au Personal Kanban.

Personal Kanban: Visualisez votre travail | Pilotez votre vie (French Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Barry, Tonianne DeMaria

Psychology & Counseling

Individuals work in teams to create value. This is the Collaboration Equation. 
Professionals act with confidence. 
The Problem: By their very design, the organizations we work for destroy confidence. They run on systems and processes that starve professionals of information, direction, psychological safety, and purpose, causing even the most talented individuals to question themselves and their decisions. They drift and become alienated, inevitably turning to structures that force competent and thoughtful people to wait for direction which never comes. 
Whether virtually or in real life, we isolate workers in cubicles, teams into silos, and decisions into oblivion. 
This way of working…is not working. 
The Solution: The Collaboration Equation draws from a lifetime of building collaborative systems, helping individuals be professionals, teams take pride in their work, and companies be resilient. This dynamic guide to working together shares insightful case studies, practical coaching, and helps readers build a real culture, design real processes, and to create real collaborative systems that people enjoy working in. 
You will be able to build visual systems where people can see their work. 
You will be able to create cultures with a “Right Environment” so they can mind their system. 
And you will create an organization where your individuals truly work in teams to create value. 
Your professionals, your company, and you will act with confidence.\nWithout fail, every well-run endeavor has involved collaboration. Every real collaboration creates and maintains its own clarity. Every real collaboration has psychological safety. Every real collaboration has fearlessly shared leadership. Every real collaboration has the guts to work for real success. 
Individuals in teams create value. 
Every successful team I have ever seen operated as a team. Every successful team I have ever seen had individual professionals behaving professionally. Every successful team I have ever seen knew what success looked like. They made their quest for success visual, they talked about it regularly, their opinions were respected, and their actions were appreciated. 
Practical collaborative work creates its own rewards, its own psychological safety, its own agency, and its own quality control. Intentional collaboration creates a right environment where all professionals can operate to their highest potential. Professional collaboration abhors defects, hidden issues, and poor communication. 
In business, we have a choice; we can make things better or we can languish is costly mediocrity. Sometimes the paths to better look blocked by immovable objects, but there are no immovable objects in the universe. Everything has a lever, everything has a button. Collaboration finds the irresistible force. 
The fact is most businesses today are in the business of making just enough money to sustain their internal waste and maybe a little bit more. They make terrible decisions, build structures that invite bickering and impedance, and bring in new professionals with great promises that have poorly attempted delivery. 
Most businesses, but not all.

The Collaboration Equation: Strong Professionals Strong Teams Strong Delivery

Change Questions: A Playbook for Effective and Lasting Organizational Change

Kelley, D . Lynn

Shook, John Y

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