Books
EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
My first book co–authored with my great friends Jim Highsmith and Linda Luu. Published by Addison Wesley.
From the back cover:
EDGE: THE AGILE OPERATING MODEL THAT WILL HELP YOU SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTE YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it’s
where organizations “invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools
to achieve digital transformation, and EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to using this operating model for innovation.
Jim Highsmith is one of the world’s leading agile pioneers and a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto. He, Linda Luu, and David Robinson know from their vast in-the-trenches experience that sustainable digital transformation requires far more than adopting isolated agile practices or conventional portfolio management. This hard, indispensable work involves changing culture and mindset, and going beyond transforming the
IT department.
EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset in the face of market uncertainty, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continual value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and better risk mitigation. This guide shows leaders how to use the breakthrough EDGE approach to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunities.
Build an organization that adapts fast enough to thrive
Clear away unnecessary governance processes, obsolete “command and control” leadership approaches, and slow budgeting/planning cycles
Improve collaboration when major, fast-paced responses are necessary
Continually optimize investment allocation and monitoring based on your vision and goals
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