The Agile Mind-Set: Making Agile Processes Work

Are you frustrated or disenchanted by the results of your Agile approach?
Does Agile sound like a good idea, but you're not sure how to explain it beyond roles, practices, and meetings?
Is your team going through the motions, but it's still business as usual?

The missing piece is the Agile mind-set — the thinking that makes Agile processes work.

This book is your compass for the Agile journey. Without prescribing any process, practice, or tool, it will show you how practitioners approach:

• Deciding what to work on
• Planning and doing the work
• Engaging people and performing as teams
• Working better

Pragmatic and dogma-free, this book will help you understand what it means to be Agile and how to bring others along.

"Gil Broza is a kindred spirit to the pioneers of the Agile movement. He reminds us of the core values, principles, and behaviors of this enduring effort to bring joy and delight to producing software. To those new to the pursuit, he brings a lantern for the journey." -- Rich Sheridan, CEO, Menlo Innovations

With forewords by Agile pioneer Jim Highsmith and mindset expert Linda Rising.

Gil Broza specializes in helping tech leaders deliver far better results by upgrading their organizations' Agile ways of working. He also supports their non-software colleagues in creating real business agility in their teams. Gil has helped over 100 organizations achieve real, sustainable improvements by working with their unique value delivery contexts and focusing on mindset, culture, and leadership. Companies also invite Gil for leadership advisory, strategic mapping of their improvement journey, facilitation of organizational mindset workshops, and keynotes for internal conferences.

Gil has published four practical books:

• Deliver Better Results provides 10 systemic strategies for sustainably improving value delivery
• The Agile Mind-Set helps practitioners and leaders alike master Agile thinking and go beyond particular frameworks and practices
• The Human Side of Agile guides Agile team leaders in facilitating team excellence in the real, messy world
• Agile for Non-Software Teams helps managers outside of software/IT consider, design, start, and grow effective custom implementations