Agile methodology has become pervasive across all types of business and development contexts. However, the majority of agile adopters face 3 major challenges:
Agile methods are often only adopted from the “bottom up”, resulting in
-Lack of Executive engagement
-Failure to transform the business, as well as the development organization

Increasing rate of hybrid agile implementations, combining both agile and waterfall concepts, in technology sector* poses a number of unanswered strategic and operational questions. *source Global Agile Adoption survey by Forrester, Q2 2015.

­­In order to stay ahead of the competition agile must be scaled from merely team and project management to managing the entire enterprise at the program and portfolio level.

There has been no methodology in the market today that addresses these issues and provides a system to tune agile implementations for maximum efficiency, until now

Agile Worx® is the only agile consulting and training firm that has created its own “bible”.

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Agile methodologies have become a popular and widely accepted method for managing software development. However, despite this success, managing agile methods has proven to be a real challenge for most companies, particularly those with complex products such as IoT devices and large development environments. As such, agile methods are changing. Many companies have been forced to adopt a hybrid version of agile and waterfall techniques, and this hybrid approach is fast becoming the norm rather than the exception in the industry.

Metagility

Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage is the first book to provide a comprehensive approach for managing a new and highly effective breed of agility from the executive level on down. Based on scientific theory and practitioner research, it is the definitive playbook for those seeking the optimal solution for adapting agile to more complex product development and organizational contexts. This desk reference shows organizations how to manage both agile and waterfall techniques to outperform their competition in industries with very high technological change, turbulent markets, and innovation. Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage is the first book to provide a comprehensive approach for managing a new and highly effective breed of agility from the executive level on down. Based on scientific theory and practitioner research, it is the definitive playbook for those seeking the optimal solution for adapting agile to more complex product development and organizational contexts. This desk reference shows organizations how to manage both agile and waterfall techniques to outperform their competition in industries with very high technological change, turbulent markets, and innovation.

Key Features

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Provides

valuable insights and guidance on how to manage hybrid agile implementations in situations where traditional agile methods typically fall short, such as with embedded systems where the hardware, firmware, and software are developed in tandem, and for large enterprises and distributed teams

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Presents

new language for understanding agility including concepts such as business momentum and agile vorticity that provides cutting-edge insights into a company’s position in its market

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Describes

a method to determine what true agility means and how to achieve it for your company both within your internal organization and your position in the marketplace

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Shows

how to determine the proper mix of agile and waterfall characteristics for your organization to help you get the most out of your agile strategy in today’s highly competitive and innovative markets

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Supplies

tools that provide not only the monitors and gauges, but the dials and knobs executives can utilize to affect change and achieve optimal results from their agile implementation

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offers an agile metric calculator, agile artifact template, user story workflow info-graphic, and other valuable resources—available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com

Agile Worx ® provides the methodology proven to facilitate executive engagement, transform the business into the
“agile triangle” (Value, Quality, Constraints),
and manage and adjust the agile approach even in hybrid implementations.