Sooner Safer Happier

Name: Sooner Safer Happier
Author: https://www.simonandschuster.biz/authors/Jonathan-Smart/239926533
ISBN: 9781950508419

Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility

By Jonathan Smart

With Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie and Simon Rohrer

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About The Book

"This is one of the most important Agile books since The Phoenix Project." ?Charles Betz, author, instructor, and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

Drive real change through actual business outcomes, not rigid practices and a handful of buzzwords.

Being Agile isn’t the goal; the true goal is successful outcomes. And successful outcomes come from embracing business principles that engender high-performing organizations, not from following a formula.

The award-winning Sooner Safer Happier lays the foundation for achieving what truly matters: delivering better value sooner, safer, and happier. Every chapter of this practical guide to business success clearly articulates the typical ways of working that organizations get wrong (antipatterns) and quickly follows them with what to do right (patterns). Each pattern helps empower teams and leaders and allows the organization as a whole to break free of prescribed Agile practices to achieve true agility and success.

Anyone looking to drive successful business outcomes needs this book on their desk to dip into over and over again.

“This is a realistic approach to adopting (or not adopting) agile in your organization. The theory is sound; the practice is extensive. I strongly recommend this book.” —Dave Snowden, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge, Creator of Cynefin

“Sooner Safer Happier is a must-read for any business leader looking to succeed in the digital age.” —David Silverman, coauthor of Team of Teams

About The Author

Jonathan Smart

Jonathan Smart has been leading an agile approach to change as a business technologist for nearly thirty years, starting out as a developer on the trading floor in investment banking. Today, Smart leads Deloitte's Business Agility practice, helping organizations deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through the application of Agile, Lean, and DevOps principles and practices organization wide. Previously Smart lead Ways of Working globally for Barclays Bank where his teams, on average, delivered three times as much in a third of the time, with fewer production incidents and the highest ever employee engagement scores. He and his team won the Best Internal Agile Team award at the Agile Awards in 2016. Smart is also the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network, a member of the Programming Committee for the DevOps Enterprise Summit, a member of the Business Agility Institute Advisory Council, a guest speaker at London Business School, and speaks at numerous conferences a year.