Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

"Think agile is just for product and software development? Think again. If you're a leader in an organization with agile teams, you might think you don't need to know the details as long as the work gets done. But agile is here to stay and is poised to move beyond IT and project management teams into other business units, even HR. If you're still using top-down planning across your organization, your company will fall to competitors that are nimbler than you. Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand today's most essential thinking on the latest agile practices, so your company can develop offerings faster, react to fluctuations in the market, and ensure your strategy and people can adapt at a moment's notice"--
This book brings together eight articles previously published in Harvard Business Review or on its website from 2017 to 2018 on agile practices in business. They discuss creating a flexible organization, what to do when organizations rush to implement agile software development and become less agile in the process, how to make sure agile teams can work together, how Nextdoor addressed racial profiling on its platform using an agile approach, agile for human resources and senior teams, how agile teams can help turnarounds succeed, and sustaining process improvements. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
More than a buzzword, agile is a powerful business tool for all.To the uninitiated, agile is a software development and project management process involving white boards, colored Post-it Notes, and stand-up meetings. It may seem as though agile doesn’t and won't ever apply to you. But agile is here to stay, and its benefits can be realized beyond IT and project management into other areas of your business. If you're a leader, it's worth exploring how your group can benefit from the higher productivity and morale agile brings.Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on agile, from exploring the conditions under which agile is most effective and easiest to implement to reducing new-product development risk to bringing the most valuable products and features to market faster and more predictably. The lessons in this book will help you introduce agile into a broader range of activities and accelerate profitable growth for your company.Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.