Agile Companies

Agile methods have become the norm in many development environments, but agile methodology can also be used to make company departments, business units, and even complete companies more efficient and flexible. Agile companies are innovative and react quickly to changes in the market while offering their staff interesting and fulfilling jobs.

Many company leaders are now asking themselves: “How do we become more agile?”

This book focuses on the steps necessary to achieve true agility. It takes a close look at business units and departments and gives you a wealth of ideas and strategies for finding the way toward agility for your own business.

Jürgen Hoffmann and Stefan Roock use real-world case studies to illustrate:

• Satisfied customers, and the client-side view of needs and values
• Continuous growth through new lines of business
• Value creation as a team task
• Support organization
• Company development as a complex task
• Contemporary leadership methods
• Decision-making through advice and consent

The appendices include summarized descriptions of the methods used in design thinking, design sprints und lean startup situations, as well as the lightweight, scrum-based LeSS framework used for developing large-scale products.