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  • The Age of Agile

  • How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done
  • By: Stephen Denning
  • Narrated by: Tom Parks
  • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (344 ratings)

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The Age of Agile

By: Stephen Denning
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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An unstoppable business revolution is under way - and it is Agile. Companies that embrace Agile Management learn to connect everyone and everything...all the time. They can deliver instant, intimate, frictionless value on a large scale.

Agile began emerging many decades ago, but truly took off in the software development industry. Sparking dramatic improvements in quality, innovation, and speed-to-market, the Agile movement is now spreading quickly throughout all kinds of companies. It enables a team, a unit, or an enterprise to nimbly adapt and upgrade products and services to meet rapidly changing technology and customer needs. And the process is applicable anywhere—companies don’t need to be born Agile, like Spotify. Even centuries-old Barclays is making the transition and reaping rewards.

Filled with examples from every sector, The Age of Agile helps readers:

  • Master the three laws of Agile Management (team, customer, network)
  • Embrace the new mindset
  • Overcome constraints
  • Employ meaningful metrics
  • Make the entire organization Agile
  • And more

With this breakthrough approach, even global giants can learn to act entrepreneurially. Their future depends on it.

©2018 Stephen Denning (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Published by arrangement with AMACOM, a division of American Management Association International, New York.
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A must read for people who want a change

It have a lot of interesting points, and have become a reference for a lot of debating about organizations and agile transformation

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Paradigm shift worth every minute !

Must read, as every company will become software with the advent of Industry 4 and digital transformation.

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Good and Insightful

Insightful with immersion to real life use cases that makes the ideas more relevant and practical.

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One of the best

One of the best. Ive bought it through audible but ill buy the printed version too

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this is a great book

I loved this book, and a transformative book, with lots of information. it is a great way into for Scrum Masters and Agile practitioners.

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Thorough explanation of agile principles for non-agile managers

I liked that the book provided a thorough explanation of agile principles - with real-world case studies - and in the language of your typical executive or manager. The progression between the three laws of agile (law of the small team, law of the customer and law of the network) clearly explained what I have previously experienced. I recommend this book for any manager or executive who wants to understand why their organisation “needs to be agile” and for any agilest who wants to learn how to present agile principles in a language managers and executives will understand.

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great book except for one part

I really like this book overall. I liked his analogy of agile as a management practice, not just a software development technique. I found his description of the nabc framework to be helpful.

If I would have stopped listening two-thirds of the way through, I would have given this 5 stars, but the last third of the book he goes on a huge rant against CEO compensation, stock options, and share buy backs. It felt very out of place to me and did not fit the rest of the book very well.

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insightful

combining theory concepts and practices, connecting past present and future, amazing toys of vocabulary relevant for the topic

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Good first half, so-so second half

The first part of the book focuses on Agile principles, their origins, examples of how they have been applied both successfully and unsuccessfully. The second half, while somewhat interesting, goes into details about economics, stock price manipulation and other practices where I felt the connection with Agile was lost.

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2 Part Book - The part on Agile is truly Awesome!

Probably the best book about Agile currently available (excluding Mike Beedle’s work). I give the first 7 chapters 10 Stars! The 2nd half of the book is a thinly disguised anti-capitalist rant that is simply unnecessary.

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