Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed | Book Series

Overview: The author of this book is a certified Bibliophile and a professional geek, having owned books on software methods that any average human can possess. The author says that “Balancing Agility and Discipline has a very prominent place on shelves of my library because it has helped me sort out the noise and confusions with the current methods.” This is an incredible book portraying the emotionally complicated topic and the authors deserve huge applause for the care they have handled and for the tremendous job in identifying the five critical factors that every business professional faces in his entire career for creating the right balance of flexibility and structure.

  • Personnel
  • Criticality
  • Size
  • Culture and
  • Dynamism

These thoughtful analyses by the authors of this book will help developers, Managers and IT professionals who have to sort through the agile-disciplined debate, while also giving them the guidance to create the right mix for their projects.

Authors:

Barry Boehm,‎ Richard Turner

Published In:

2009

 

Agile IT Organization Design: for Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery| Book Series

Overview: In this book, the author Sriram Narayan is a veteran IT management consultant at ThoughtWorks, who shows how to incorporate agility throughout your organization. The author draws more than 15 years of experience in working with enterprise clients in IT-intensive industries. In this book, the author introduces an agile approach to “Business–IT Effectiveness” that is as practical as it is valuable. The author shows how structural, political, operational, and cultural facets of organization design influence overall IT agility—and how you can promote better collaboration across diverse functions, from sales and marketing to product development, and engineering to IT operations. Through real examples, the author helps you evaluate and improve organization designs that enhance autonomy, mastery, and purpose: the key ingredients for a highly motivated workforce. 

Authors:

Sriram Narayan

Published In:

2015