Agile for Everybody: Creating Fast, Flexible, and Customer-First Organizations

The Agile movement provides real, actionable answers to the question that keeps many company leaders awake at night: How do we stay successful in a fast-changing and unpredictable world? Agile has already transformed how modern companies build and deliver software. This practical book demonstrates how entire organizations--from product managers and engineers to marketers and executives--can put Agile to work.

Author Matt LeMay explains Agile in clear, jargon-free terms and provides concrete and actionable steps to help any team put its values and principles into practice. Examples from a wide variety of organizations, including small nonprofits and global financial enterprises, bring to life the on-the-ground realities of Agile across industries and functions.

• Understand exactly what Agile is and why it matters
• Use Agile to address your organization's specific needs and goals
• Take customer centricity from theory into practice
• Stop wasting time in "report and critique" meetings and start making better decisions
• Create a harmonious cycle of learning, collaborating, and delivering
• Learn from Agile experts at companies like IBM, Spotify, and Coca-Cola

Matt LeMay is an internationally recognized product leader, author, and keynote speaker. He is co-founder and partner at Sudden Compass, a collective of world-class strategists, product leaders, data analysts, and network-builders that has worked with companies like Spotify, Google, and Intuit. Matt has built and scaled product management practices at companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 50 enterprises, and has developed and led digital transformation and data strategy workshops for GE, American Express, Pfizer, McCann, and Johnson & Johnson. Previously, Matt was a senior product manager at music startup Songza (acquired by Google) and head of consumer product at Bitly. Matt is also a musician, recording engineer, and the author of a book about singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. He lives in Portland, OR, with his wife Joan.