Explore Books on Agile, Software Development, and Digital Transformation
Succeeding with OKRs in Agile
A guide to effectively integrating Objectives and Key Results with Agile practices for enhanced team performance and strategic success.
Business Patterns for Software Developers
Essential strategies and patterns for navigating business challenges in software development.
Books to be Written
A non-fictions author's how-to guide to writing, publishing and marketing
The Art of Agile Product Ownership
A Guide for Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Entrepreneurs
Project Myopia
Critiques the project model and proposes alternatives for the digital era.
A Little Book about Requirements and User Stories
Heuristics for requirements in an agile world
Continuous Digital
Agile integration with continuous innovation for digital business management.
Changing Software Development
Exploring agile methodologies for adaptable software development and continuous team learning.
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Strategic Consulting
Workflow design, Product strategy, OKR adoption, team structure, organization design, Agile adoption or reboot
Agile & OKR Coaching
Experienced coaches available on a fractional basis or embedded in your teams
Training in Agile & OKRs
Fun, enjoyable, training for people who learn by doing
Succeeding with OKRs in Agile
Amazon #1 Best seller in “Agile Programming” and “IT Project Management”
OKRs are about goals bigger than the next story, or even epic. OKRs prioritise purpose and strategy over backlogs. Objectives are big goals; key results are smaller goals that build towards the objective.
Agile works well with OKRs because both are outcome oriented and results focused. Used right OKRs give purpose, power and authority to teams. Used poorly OKRs can re-introduce command-and-control and hinder agile working.
Allan Kelly has written this short guide to OKRs: writing, organizing to deliver and the pitfalls of using. He doesn’t try to sell OKRs, rather Allan draws on his practical experience with teams working agile and adopting OKRs, day-by-day, quarter-by-quarter.
Initially sceptical, Allan found OKRs became an effective way to focus teams, expose problems, communicate with senior managers and a powerful means of asking bigger questions about product strategy and value.
Business Patterns for Software Developers
You know all about your software product but could do with some help in understanding the strategic side of things. If so, this book is the one–stop resource you′ll need in order to become a successful software entrepreneur. A step–by–step route that needs to be followed in order to understand business strategy and operations.
Books to be Written
Thinking of writing a book? Debating between self-publishing and finding a publisher? Wondering how to market your book?
Books to be Written describes expereinces from writing, publishing and marketing eight books. Learn more about Books to be Written and how you can download a free samle.
The Art of Agile Product Ownership
Every product owner faces a complex and unique set of challenges within their team. This provides each individual the opportunity to fill the role with different ambitions, skills, and insights. Your product ownership journey can take a variety of paths, and The Art of Agile Product Ownership is here to be your guide.
Read a review on Scrum Expert. (Published by Apress, 2019.)
Project Myopia
Why Projects Damage Software #NoProjects – a companion to Continuous Digital.
Projects fail. Some say 40% of all IT projects fail, some say 70%. And it has been that way for years.
Each project fails for its own reasons but they all share one thing in common: the Project Model. Could it be the project model itself which creates failure?
Project Myopia is available at Amazon – print, ebook and audio versions
Little Book about Requirements and User Stories
Heuristics for requirements in an agile world
Watch this video introduction to Little – This book was written because, while User Stories look easy, I found I was answering the same questions again and again.
“What is the right size for a user story?”
“What is the difference between an Epic and a Story?”
“And where do Tasks and Sub-tasks fit in?
Continuous Digital
Taking Agile to the next level – An agile alternative to projects
In the digital world, the business is technology, and technology is the business. Every business is a digital business
Continuous Digital is a new management model for digital business. Agile software development was the first wave of process change for digital business. Now it is time to update management models and thinking.
This book describes the Continuous model, a world in which technology development drives the business and the business drives technology.
Changing Software Development
Learning to be agile
Xanpan
Team Centric agile Software Development
A cross between XP and Kanban… Is an example of a roll-your-own method… Is team centric Agile… Is distilled from Allan Kelly’s own experiences running development teams and then helping multiple teams adopt Agile working methods and practices. Xanpan draws ideas from Kanban and Lean, XP and Scrum, Product Management and Business…
Video: Allan Kelly previews Xanpan at BCS Lean Kanban Day conference 2013 (slides on slideshare) and Xanpan extended presentation from DevWeek London 2014.
Blogs about Xanpan: Origins of Xanpan, Planned and Unplanned work in Xanpan and Refining the Process.
Plus, the unfinished book 2 of Xanpan, Management and the Team.