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Research says management is often the biggest obstacle in the adoption of agile software development. Let's try and raise a new generation of agile managers!

 


 

(Details about the book, like the definitive table of contents, and free materials, will be made available later.)

Introduction to the Book

Agile management is an often overlooked part of Agile. There are many dozens of books for agile developers and project managers, but very few for agile managers and leaders. However, when organizations adopt agile software development, not only developers and project managers need to learn new practices. Development managers and team leaders must also learn a different approach to leading and managing organizations.

Several studies indicate that management is the biggest obstacle in transitions to agile software development. Managers need to learn what their new role is in software development organizations in the 21st century, and how to get the best out of Agile. This book will help them.

An important portion of the book deals with complexity theory, and how ideas and concepts from this scientific field can be translated to management of software development teams. The book is half theory/half practice. It aims at managers who want to become agile, and agilists who want to become managers.

Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, is being written by Jurgen Appelo, author of the popular NOOP.NL blog, and will be published by Addison-Wesley in the Mike Cohn Signature Series.