Agile

More than a buzzword, Agile is a powerful business tool for all

To the uninitiated, agile is a software development and project management process involving white boards, colored Post-it Notes, and stand-up meetings. It may seem as though agile doesn't and won't ever apply to you. But agile is here to stay, and its benefits can be realized beyond the IT and project management into other areas of your business. If you're a leader, it's worth exploring how your group can benefit from the higher productivity and morale agile brings.

Agile: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on agile, from exploring the conditions under which agile is the most effective and easiest to implement to reducing new-product development risk to bringing the most valuable products and features to market faster and more predictably. The lessons in this book will help you introduce agile into a broader range of activities and accelerate profitable growth for your company.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?

• Introduction: Agile: How to Get in the Game (and Not Get in the Way)
  Good Intentions aren't enough
  Darrell K. Rigby

1. Agile at Scale
   Create a truly  flexible organization
   Darrel K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, and Andy Noble
2. Why Agile Goes Awry
   And how to fix it
   Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi
3. How to Make SUre Agile Teams Can Work Together
   Combine -- and recombine -- essential expertise
   Alia Crocker, Rob Cross, and Heidi K. Gardner
4. How Nextdoor Addressed Racial Profiling on Its Platform
   A data-oriented approach helped the social network recover -- quickly
   Phil SImon
5. HR Goes Agile
   Agile is transforming how organizations hire, develop, and manage their people
   Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis
6. How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite
   Set the tone for your organization
   Eric Garton and Andy Noble
7. How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed
   Tap the people who are better at handling variable and unpredictable situations
   Darrell K. Rigby, Simon Henderson, and Marco D'Avino
8. Making Process Improvements Stick
   Don't let early excitement lead to backsliding