The Agile Consultant: Guiding Clients to Enterprise Agility

240 Pages·2016·6.08 MB·English

by  Rick Freedman (auth.)

The Agile
Consultant
Guiding Clients
to Enterprise Agility
―
Rick Freedman
T HE AGILE CONSULTANT
G UIDING CLIENTS TO ENTERPRISE AGILITY
R ick Freedman
T e Agile Consultant: Guiding Clients to Enterprise Agility
Rick Fredman
Lenexa, Kansas
USA
ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4302-6052-3 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-6053-0
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-6053-0
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Contents
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Part I: What Is Agile Consulting?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Chapter 1: The Agile Consultant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2: Agile Evolution: More Than Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 3: The EVOLVE Framework for Agile Evolution. . . . . . . . . . . 35
Part II: The EVOLVE Agile Consulting Framework . . . .45
Chapter 4: Explore and Engage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 5: Visualize Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 6: O bserve and Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chapter 7: Lead Teams to Agility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 8: Visible Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Chapter 9: Evolve the Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Part III: Engaging at Enterprise Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Chapter 10: Agile Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Chapter 11 The Leadership Commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 12: The Agile Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Chapter 13: The Agile Consulting Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Part IV: Running the Agile Consulting Practice . . . . . . .177
Chapter 14: The Agile Consulting Skill Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Chapter 15: Agile Domain Expertise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Chapter 16: Conclusion: Toward the Agile Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Appendix A: The Roots of Agile: History and Background . . . . . . . . . . 205
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
A bout the Author
R ick F reedman, a uthor of T he IT Consultant (Pfeiffer, 2000), has experienced
the agile transition from the inside. He has been working as an agile coach
and trainer since the beginning of the agile movement. As Worldwide Project
Management Director for Intel from 2001–2005, Rick evangelized, trained,
and coached Intel project managers in the United States, UK, China, India,
Germany, Sweden, and Australia. Since leaving Intel, Rick has trained and
coached agile teams at clients such as Credit Suisse, Bank of New York, Turner
Broadcasting, Motorola, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs
and Border Patrol, the IRS, Wells Fargo, TransCanada, and many others. He
authored ESI’s original Agile Project Management course and consulted with
ESI as it expanded this offering into a suite of agile courses now delivered
internationally. Rick’s articles about agility for TechRepublic and DZone enable
him to remain current with agile trends and engage with a worldwide audi-
ence of agilists.