Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))

ISBN: 0321712471

Author: Appelo, Jurgen

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In many organizations, management is the biggest obstacle to successful Agile development. Unfortunately, reliable guidance on Agile management has been scarce indeed. Now, leading Agile manager Jurgen Appelo fills that gap, introducing a realistic approach to leading, managing, and growing your Agile team or organization.Writing for current managers and developers moving into management, Appelo shares insights that are grounded in modern complex systems theory, reflecting the intense complexity of modern software development. AppelosManagement 3.0 model recognizes that todays organizations are living, networked systems; and that management is primarily about people and relationships.Management 3.0 doesnt offer mere checklists or prescriptions to follow slavishly; rather, it deepens your understanding of how organizations and Agile teams work and gives you tools to solve your own problems. Drawing on his extensive experience as an Agile manager, the author identifies the most important practices of Agile management and helps you improve each of them.Coverage includesGetting beyond Management 1.0 control and Management 2.0 fadsUnderstanding how complexity affects your organizationKeeping your people active, creative, innovative, and motivatedGiving teams the care and authority they need to grow on their ownDefining boundaries so teams can succeed in alignment with business goalsSowing the seeds for a culture of software craftsmanshipCrafting an organizational network that promotes successImplementing continuous improvement that actually worksThoroughly pragmaticand never trendyJurgen AppelosManagement 3.0 helps you bring greater agility to any software organization, team, or project.