The Agile Company - Beyond Project Management
The agile company is about companies and organizations that are flexible and quick to adapt to changing environment, markets and customer needs.
These organizations are agile not only in IT and development projects, but in the whole organization. What characterises them is that they have removed a number of hierarchic and bureaucratic management features that would have suppressed their employees. Such disturbances are budgeting or other detailed planning methods, often combined with tight monitoring and a focus on short-term shareholder demands and supported by individual performance-based incentives. By removing all of these, just removing one or two is not enough, we argue that there is a good chance that organizations may change from rigid and mechanistic super tankers to agile shoals of fish.
This homepage and the book presents differences between agile and mechanistic organisations from both practical and research perspectives and offers numerous cases from the real business world to support its conclusions.
Some opinions about the book
Student at Mid Sweden University:
The book is unbelievably easy to read and understand
Erik Ringertz, CEO Netlight:
A very good introduction to management based on trust
Maria Gerlofson, the magazine Chef (manager):
Everybody who wants to lead more agile should read this. If you want to get a deep understanding about what agile leadership really is about, then this is a book for you.