12 Steps to Flow: The New Framework for Business Agility

This book is a must read for anybody in the agile community who is involved in digital transformation or anybody wishing to acquire agile skills to support the change management process. It is particularly suitable for project managers who need to loosen the reins as transformation takes place. The book is a companion book to the authors' widely praised Flow: A Handbook for Change-Makers. Flow takes the principles of the agile manifesto and provides a light framework for teams and enterprises to reach agile objectives: engaging people in creative collaboration, "being agile" rather than just trying to do agile; and creating value. Flow is an extension of the skills offered in scrum and Kanban training, particularly the new Scrum Kanban Flow, but will also appeal to colleagues in digital marketing, innovation and strategy. New ways to work involve everybody in learning new skills. It will enhance the career prospects and business understanding of project managers, scrum masters, agile coaches, business analysts and product owners as well as software engineers and developers.12 Steps to Flow is designed to help people to improve their careers in the agile enterprise. Whereas Flow: A Handbook for Change-Makers explained what needs to change in the modern enterprise particularly in the way IT and software relate to and work with the business, 12 Steps tells you the how. It is literally 12 steps to enterprise agility and personal growth. "In the race for agile transformation somebody has to spell out what the enterprise looks like once many more people are empowered. At last, in Flow we have that document and with it the start of a movement for a new way to work. Shaughnessy and Goulding use very practical examples to show us how self-organising, empowered teams can go about co-designing the best way to get work done. Innovation becomes Flow, the enterprise becomes agile." Peter Hinssen, author The Day After Tomorrow