I don’t care for cookbooks, as in ‘5 steps to success at whatever.’ I like books that urge you to think, that present new ideas and get mental juices flowing. Jurgen’s book is in this latter category; it asks us to think about leading and managing as a complex undertaking–especially in today’s turbulent world. Management 3.0 offers managers involved in agile/lean transformations a thought-provoking guide how they themselves can ‘become’ agile.
JIM HIGHSMITH, executive consultant at ThoughtWorks, Inc., author of Agile Project Management
Management is often the main obstacle to agile software development
Agile management is an often overlooked part of Agile. There are at least a hundred books for agile developers and project managers, but very few for agile managers and leaders.
When organizations adopt agile software development, not only developers and project managers need to learn new practices. Development managers and team leaders must also learn a different approach to leading and managing organizations.
Several studies indicate that management is the biggest obstacle in transitions to agile software development. Managers need to learn what their new role is in software development organizations in the 21st century, and how to get the best out of Agile. Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders is a half-theoretical, half-practical book will help them and this book will help you.
Don’t get tricked by the word ‘Agile’ used in the subtitle. The book isn’t really about Agile; it is about healthy, sensible and down-to-earth management. Something, which is still pretty uncommon.
PAWEL BRODZINSKI, CEO Lunar Logic, Poland’s leading Kanban proponent, and agile project manager
About the Author, Jurgen Appelo
Leadership guru Jurgen Appelo calls himself a creative networker. Since 2008 Jurgen has penned a popular blog at www.noop.nl, covering the creative economy, agile management, and personal development. He is the author of Management 3.0 and the subsequent Management 3.0 workshops. He also has written the booklet How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management and then the practical follow-up to Management 3.0, Managing for Happiness, Jurgen is CEO of the business network Happy Melly, and co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network and the Stoos Network for better leaders. He is also a speaker who is regularly invited to talk at business seminars and conferences around the world. More about the author…
How can you get your hands on a copy of Management 3.0?
Buy the Paperback on Amazon or get the Kindle edition.
Languages Available: English and Chinese
Management 3.0 Table of Contents
- Why Things Are Not That Simple
- On Agile Software Development
- On Complex Systems Theory
- The Information-Innovation System
- How to Energize People
- The Basics of Self-Organization
- How to Empower Teams
- Leading and Ruling on Purpose
- How to Align Constraints
- The Craft of Rulemaking
- How to Develop Competence
- The Landscape of Change
- How to Improve Everything
- All Is Wrong, but Some Is Useful
This book is the result of both Jurgen’s extensive experience as a team leader and agile manager and his addiction to consuming hundreds of leadership and management tomes, each of which, from modern efficiency leaders back to Adam Smith, are cited throughout the book.
An important portion of the book deals with complexity theory, and how ideas and concepts from this scientific field can be translated to management of software development teams. It aims at managers who want to become agile, and agilists who want to become managers.
Note: You will find that many footnotes in Management 3.0 point to the website mgt30.com. That website no longer exists as we have migrated those pages to this website. Much of this information can be found throughout this website You can also continue the discussion at one of our management workshops or on the Management 3.0 LinkedIn Group.
