Agile Case Studies: Establishing a Plan

After months of excitement about ushering in an Agile methodology to the company, it took only a few months to witness the panic, uncertainty, and anguish from the leadership team as the pilot unfolded into an unfortunate spiral of failure. The Agile hype was soon forgotten and we continued down the waterfall path clearly in need of change.

That was the moment these authors understood the need for this book, the first in a series of case studies exploring why companies transform to Agile and why they need to identify the key steps in the process to make the transformation successful. The process of moving an organization to an Agile framework is best achieved using an iterative approach that employs frequent inspect-and-adapt cycles. The authors have their own first-hand experience as well as many months of research across two countries to bring you the Agile Transformation Map that will outline the steps for your organization to be successful. This colorful, detailed, easy to read map is included in the Appendix and it clearly outlines the steps for the transformation from waterfall to Agile.

This book is especially helpful for those executives and senior managers who continuously look for more innovative and lean methods to overcome unique complexities of today’s world. The second groups identified as a target audience are professionals and organizations, who have already experienced some flavor of Agile and failed to transform from simply adopting Agile practices to a real Agile mindset. Last, we did not leave students behind, the case studies are extremely helpful for students to learn and gain the in-depth understanding of transformation challenges by going through a variety of real life scenarios.