Big Agile leaders need an empirical, "high-trust" model that provides guidance for scaling and sustaining agility and capability throughout a modern technology organization. This book presents the Agile Performance Holarchy (APH)―a "how-ability" model that provides agile leaders and teams with an operating system to build, evaluate, and sustain great agile habits and behaviors. The APH is an organizational operating system based on a set of interdependent, self-organizing circles, or holons, that reflect the empirical, object-oriented nature of agility.
As more companies seek the benefits of Agile within and beyond IT, agile leaders need to build and sustain capability while scaling agility―no easy task―and they need to succeed without introducing unnecessary process and overhead. The APH is drawn from lessons learned while observing and assessing hundreds of agile companies and teams.
It is not a process or a hierarchy, but a holarchy, a series of performance circles with embedded and interdependent holons that reflect the behaviors of high-performing agile organizations. Great Big Agile provides implementation guidance in the areas of leadership, values, teaming, visioning, governing, building, supporting, and engaging within an all-agile organization.
What You’ll Learn
• Model the behaviors of a high-performance agile organization
• Benefit from lessons learned by other organizations that have succeeded with Big Agile
• Assess your level of agility with the Agile Performance Holarchy
• Apply the APH model to your business
• Understand the APH performance circles, holons, objectives, and actions
• Obtain certification for your company, organization, or agency
Who This Book Is For
Professionals leading, or seeking to lead, an agile organization who wish to use an innovative model to raise their organization's agile performance from one level to the next, all the way to mastery
Author(s): Jeff Dalton
Edition: 1
Publisher: Apress
Year: 2019
Language: English
Commentary: True PDF
Pages: 335
Tags: Software Engineering; Management; Leadership; Psychology; Agile; Teams; Project Management
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
The API Is Broken (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 3-17
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
Performance Circle: Leading (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 21-40
Performance Circle: Providing (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 41-53
Performance Circle: Envisioning (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 55-68
Performance Circle: Crafting (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 69-84
Performance Circle: Affirming (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 85-95
Performance Circle: Teaming (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 97-108
Front Matter ....Pages 109-109
Acceptance Testing (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 111-112
Agile Agreement (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 113-115
Agile Digs (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 117-118
Agile Partner Assessment (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 119-120
All Hands Raised (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 121-122
Arc of Conversation (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 123-125
Automated Build (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 127-128
Backlog Grooming (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 129-131
Best Practices Board (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 133-134
Big Room Planning / Release Zero (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 135-137
Brainstorming (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 139-141
Burn Down Chart (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 143-145
Confirmation (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 147-148
Continuous Deployment (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 149-150
Continuous Integration (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 151-152
Class, Responsibilities, Collaborators (CRC) Cards (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 153-154
Daily Stand-Up (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 155-157
Definition of Done (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 159-161
Definition of Ready (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 163-164
Dot Voting (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 165-166
Epics (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 167-168
Evaluation (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 169-170
Frequent Releases (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 171-172
Gemba Walks (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 173-174
Gemba Kaizen (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 175-176
Goal, Question, Metric (GQM) (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 177-179
Incremental Development (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 181-182
Kamishibai (Board and Cards) (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 183-185
Kanban Board (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 187-188
Kano Model (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 189-190
Lean Coffee (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 191-192
Mob Programming (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 193-194
Obeya Room (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 195-196
Open Space Technology (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 197-198
Pair Programming (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 199-200
Peer Reviews (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 201-202
Planning Poker (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 203-204
Product Backlogs (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 205-207
Product Scenarios (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 209-210
Project (Team) Chartering (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 211-213
Prototyping/Spike (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 215-216
Release Planning (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 217-218
Retrospectives (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 219-222
Review (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 223-224
Roles and Accountabilities Game (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 225-226
Scrum of Scrums (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 227-228
Scrum Wall/Scrum Board (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 229-230
Self-Selection/Self-Subscription (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 231-232
Spike (Design Spike) (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 233-234
Sprint (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 235-237
Sprint Demo (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 239-240
Sprint Planning (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 241-243
Stakeholder Identification and Management (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 245-246
State of the Team (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 247-248
SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 249-252
Team Agreement (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 253-254
Team Estimation Game (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 255-257
Team Room Set-Up (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 259-260
Technical Debt (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 261-262
Test-Driven Development (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 263-264
Three Diverse Humans (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 265-266
Training (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 267-268
Unit Testing (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 269-270
Velocity (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 271-272
Visual Information Management (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 273-275
Front Matter ....Pages 277-277
Using the Agile Performance Holarchy (Jeff Dalton)....Pages 279-300
Back Matter ....Pages 301-335
