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"Many books talk about the importance of culture to agile success. The Agile Culture shows the reader how to make the specific culture changes needed for agile success. The authors provide proven tools and models for moving from ""date-driven, internally-focused"" cultures to ""value-driven, customer-focused"" cultures where agile can thrive and flourish. They offer clear rationales for using each tool, demonstrate it at work, present relevant case studies and examples, define expected outcomes, and show how to measure success. Using these techniques, students will learn to achieve the results promised by agile: a culture of continuous innovation, transparency, and trust."

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“This is the Agile book I’ve been waiting for. Enough with the rituals of process. Let’s get into what really matters–creating the culture that teams need to thrive.” —Marty Cagan, founding partner, The Silicon Valley Product Group   “A book full of practical tools and real-life stories–a great resource for every leader involved in a serious Agile transformation.” —Hendrik Esser, director of portfolio and technology management, Ericsson   “ ‘What is culture? How do we create a culture? What are our cultural problems?’ These questions can have lofty, philosophical, theoretical answers that sound profound. Unfortunately, profundity rarely gets the job done. The authors have once again broken an important topic into easily understood parts. Not only do they make the questions understandable, they provide specific, actionable techniques for answering the questions and addressing the challenges. This book is as much a how-to as it is a what-is-it and a why-do-I-care book. Everybody who is in a leadership role, or deals with people in leadership roles (that’d be just about everyone, right?) should read this.” —Steven “Doc” List, vice president of learning, Santeon Group   “The content is phenomenal! Just an incredible distillation of years of experience.” —Christine DelPrete, senior director of technology, Amirsys, Inc.

This is the Agile book I've been waiting for. Enough with the rituals of process. Let's get into what really matters-creating the culture that teams need to thrive. -Marty Cagan, founding partner, The Silicon Valley Product Group A book full of practical tools and real-life stories-a great resource for every leader involved in a serious Agile transformation. -Hendrik Esser, director of portfolio and technology management, Ericsson 'What is culture? How do we create a culture? What are our cultural problems?' These questions can have lofty, philosophical, theoretical answers that sound profound. Unfortunately, profundity rarely gets the job done. The authors have once again broken an important topic into easily understood parts. Not only do they make the questions understandable, they provide specific, actionable techniques for answering the questions and addressing the challenges. This book is as much a how-to as it is a what-is-it and a why-do-I-care book. Everybody who is in a leadership role, or deals with people in leadership roles (that'd be just about everyone, right?) should read this. -Steven Doc List, vice president of learning, Santeon Group The content is phenomenal! Just an incredible distillation of years of experience. -Christine DelPrete, senior director of technology, Amirsys, Inc.

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Pollyanna Pixton, an internationally recognized expert on collaborative leadership, is president of Accelinnova, a firm providing proven tools for leading transformations. Pollyanna led development of the Swiss electronic stock exchange.   Paul Gibson spent more than thirty years developing products for IBM. For four years, he helped lead, guide, train, and transform IBM software teams worldwide in collaborative, agile, and lean approaches. He is a lifetime British Computer Society Fellow.   Niel Nickolaisen is the chief technology officer at O.C. Tanner. Niel has spent his career finding rapid, pragmatic ways to improve processes, teams, and results. He is passionate about transforming IT and leadership, and speaks about, writes about, and trains others how to do this.

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