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The Lean-Agile Way

You're reading from The Lean-Agile Way Unleash business results in the digital era with value stream management

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835461877

Length 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Agile

Authors (3):

Al Shalloway

Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

Richard Knaster

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Building on Lean-Agile Foundations: Mastering the Basics

2. Chapter 1: Navigating Lean-Agile Transformations FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Solving Complex Business Problems with Agility

4. Chapter 3: Establishing Lean Flows to Improve Productivity

5. Part 2: Attending to our Value Streams: Prioritize Improvements by their Value-Added Impact

6. Chapter 4: Driving Improvements with Value Stream Management

7. Chapter 5: Introducing the VSM Implementation Roadmap

8. Chapter 6: Navigating Value Stream Optimization

9. Chapter 7: Connecting the Value Stream Network

10. Part 3: Achieving Lean-Agile and VSM Mastery: For Product-Oriented Business Transformations

11. Chapter 8: Implementing the Basic Lean-Agile Solution Team (BLAST)

12. Chapter 9: Defining a Business Agility System for the Enterprise (BASE)

13. Part 4: Driving Sustainable Transformation: Strategies to Achieve Lean-Agile Mastery

14. Chapter 10: Enhancing Decision-Making in the Lean-Agile Organization

15. Chapter 11: Implementing Strategies for Organizational Transformation

16. Chapter 12: Building Lean-Agile and VSM Mastery

17. Index

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Who this book is for

This book is for business and technology professionals striving to optimize value delivery while minimizing costs. Whether you’re a VSM manager, a member of a product delivery team, a DevOps engineer, or an IT specialist, this book offers proven methods for effectively identifying and implementing improvement opportunities. Product owners looking to prioritize backlog items and corporate executives aiming to demonstrate positive returns on information technology investments will also find this book helpful.

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Authors (4)

Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

Cecil ‘Gary' Rupp is a Lean-Agile consultant and practitioner with more than two decades of executive-level experience in delivering software-based solutions. With SAFe® SPC, LeSS Practitioner, CSM, CSPO, and PM P certifications, he specializes in managing large software development and enterprise application integration programs involving multiple product delivery teams and is often brought in to get failing software delivery programs back on track. Gary is the author of four books emphasizing Lean-Agile practices and has trained over 600 IT specialists, managers, and executives in applying these practices to support enterprise business transformations. His passion is helping organizations profitably deliver customer value through software.

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Al Shalloway

Al Shalloway

Al Shalloway is the CEO of Success Engineering and is renowned for developing FLEX (FLow for Enterprise Transformation) which is the basis for PMI's Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant workshop. He has since created the Amplio system which is getting recognition as a leading Lean-Agile approach. Holding master's degrees from MIT and Emory in EE and computer science and mathematics, he's an international speaker, former SPC Trainer, and SAFe® contributor. He is also the co-author of 7 books, spanning Design Patterns to Agile at Scale. Al is an influential figure in Lean, SAFe®, Kanban, Scrum, Design Patterns, and ATDD. Al empowers clients to implement Agile practices at scale and trains internal change agents for efficient team development.

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Steve Pereira

Steve Pereira

Steve Pereira is a value stream consultant with over two decades of experience in tech. He specializes in helping teams define and optimize their value streams. He's helped dozens of organizations of all sizes across many industries improve their software delivery performance. Steve is a former startup CTO, systems and release engineer, finance IT manager, tech support phone jockey, and pizza maker. He currently leads several tech communities and serves as a board advisor for the Value Stream Management Consortium, and as co-chair for the Value Stream Management Interoperability technical committee.

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Richard Knaster

Richard Knaster

Richard Knaster has over 30 years of experience in software and systems development and has led large-scale Lean-Agile transformations for over 20 years. He is a SAFe® Fellow, SPCT, and a methodologist. He previously worked for Scaled Agile as a Principal Contributor to SAFe® on the Framework team. He is the author of Value Stream Management for the Digital Age eBook and co-author of the Amazon best-selling book, SAFe Distilled book series. Richard is a global keynote speaker and has written several white papers on SAFe® and Technology Business Management. He is the Chief Scientist for Value Stream Management for Agile Rising where he shares his deep expertise in Value Stream Management, Lean Portfolio Management, and SAFe®. Richard is also a Bain & Company Advisor and has held several executive roles in various industries, including CIO, CTO, and Director of Product Development.

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