Agile Leadership in Practice

This book illustrates the agile transformation journey of a consulting organization. It consists of nine main chapters, each focusing on specific aspects of transformation. These include establishing value in business, holistic recruitment and retention, innovating performance appraisals, rethinking organizational structure, redesigning leadership roles, streamlining measurement and reward systems, and improving career paths. Some specific processes, such as corporate decision making, SMILE (budget for business improvement at employee discretion), project selection, holiday leave, and career coaching are also described. All of the transformations described build up on Management 3.0, a collection of management principles and practices that fit perfectly in an agile world.

The book is of practical relevance for managers and agile coaches who want to learn how to approach agile transformation.

Dominik Maximini is a highly experienced Agile leader, coach, Scrum Master, trainer and author. He is CEO at ValueRise Consulting GmbH, Germany, where he enables teams to live up to Agile values and improve their processes accordingly. His main assets are his passion for economical thinking and efficiency, paired with excellent analytical skills, all practiced in a broad organizational change context. This has allowed him to introduce Agile practices like Evo, Scrum and Management 3.0 into enterprises of varying sizes and industry focus. Dominik has also published several books and articles in the Scrum and Agile domain.