Mario E. Moreira
The Agile Enterprise
Building and Running Agile Organizations
Mario E. Moreira
Winchester, Massachusetts, USA
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ISBN 978-1-4842-2390-1
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DOI 10.1007/978-1-4842-2391-8
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Life is about outcomes and the positive impact you make in this world including the people around you.
I dedicate this book to my three great motivators who have had a wonderful impact on my life.
To Seeme, Aliya, and Iman.
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Acknowledgments
I want to especially thank Rita Fernando at Apress for her patience and encouragement in keeping me focused on my writing as other work and life adventures were occurring. I want to thank Robert Hutchinson and Laura Berendson at Apress for their editorial efforts in helping me make this book a reality.
To JP Beaudry and David Grabel for being strong Agile advocates and the co-authors of two chapters of this book. You helped make this journey fun, and your contributions were greatly appreciated.
To those Agilists in Emergn and Vistaprint—thank you for being part of my Agile family, both inspiring me in my Agile work and supporting my ideas.
To all my readers who are both Agile champions and enthusiasts—thank you for making a commitment to learn what it means to establish an Agile enterprise and embrace the many concepts, mindset, and methods that are needed to achieve an Agile transformation that is customer-value-driven.
Contents
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Chapter 2: Envisioning a Customer-Value-Driven Enterprise
- Chapter 3: Achieving Better Business Outcomes
- Chapter 4: Building Your Agile Galaxy
- Chapter 5: Activating an Agile Culture
- Chapter 6: Embracing Customers
- Chapter 7: Embracing Employees
- Chapter 8: Evolving Roles in Your Agile Enterprise
- Chapter 9: Building a Learning Enterprise
- Chapter 10: Applying a Discovery Mindset
- Chapter 11: Visualizing the Enterprise Idea Pipeline
- Chapter 12: Prioritizing with Cost of Delay
- Chapter 13: Capturing Ideas with Lean Canvas
- Chapter 14: Incorporating Customer Feedback
- Chapter 15: Establishing Your Requirements Tree
- Chapter 16: Decomposing Ideas with Story Mapping
- Chapter 17: Connecting the Idea Pipeline to Backlogs
- Chapter 18: Collaborating on User Stories
- Chapter 19: Promoting Agile Budgeting
- Chapter 20: Applying Agile Success Measures
- Chapter 21: Reinventing HR for Agile
- Chapter 22: Sharing an Agile Enterprise Story
- Index
About the Author and About the Contributors
About the Author
Mario E. Moreira is an enterprise Agile consultant and master Agile coach. He helps achieve better business outcomes by increasing delivery of customer value, optimizing speed of delivery, and increasing quality. Mario specializes in transforming enterprises to Agile, bringing cutting-edge concepts and practices to help gain the business benefits that Agile brings. This includes coaching and educating executives, management, and small-to-large distributed teams in Agile mindset, concepts, and practices (Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, VFQ, Story Mapping, Value Stream Mapping, and more).
Mario has worked as an executive, advisor, manager, and hands-on team member so he understands the importance of what is needed for various roles at each level of an Agile and business transformation. He has experience leading within organizations such as Fidelity Investments, CA Technologies, Walmart, Emergn, and Vistaprint.
In addition to his Agile experience, Mario is seasoned in software configuration management, portfolio management, product management, business strategy, requirements, architecture, IT governance, technology, development, delivery, innovation, quality assurance, and more.
Mario is the author of several business and technology books including The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations , Being Agile: Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile , Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams , Software Configuration Management Implementation Roadmap , and Agile for Dummies . He writes regularly for his Agile Adoption Roadmap blog at cmforagile.blogspot.com .
About the Contributors
David Grabel (co-author of Chapter 12 ) is an enterprise Agile coach at Vistaprint, bringing Agile beyond engineering to the entire business unit. He has introduced Scrum, Kanban, XP, and SAFe at both small and large organizations. As a consultant, his clients included Vistaprint, Trizetto, Bose, and PayPal. He has helped these clients adopt Agile at the team and enterprise level. He is certified as CSM, CSP, and SPC. He is a board member and former president of Agile New England, a non-profit group dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Agile throughout New England. He has spoken at many conferences including Agile 2015 and 2016, Lean Kanban North America, and Mile High Agile.
JP Beaudry (co-author of Chapter 16 ) is an engineering leader and Agile coach. JP is currently director of technology with Cimpress, where he leads the enterprise Agile transformation and technical operations for the billion-dollar Vistaprint line of business. Before Cimpress, JP led various engineering organizations at Cisco Systems. In 2013, his business unit won the Cisco Pioneer Award on the strength and depth of its Agile practice. JP is certified by the British Computer Society (BCS) as an Agile practitioner and by Emergn as a Value, Flow, Quality (VFQ) expert coach.