Untapped Agility
The Leader’s Guide to Claiming Your Transformation.
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What is this book about?
Frustrated by your transformation efforts towards a more digital, agile, lean business? You are not alone. This breakthrough book reveals the recurring pattern around what holds organizations back:
- THE BOOST is the initial gains from logical first steps.
- THE BARRIER is the unavoidable roadblock that must come next.
- THE REBOUND is the way forward to further gains by leaning against the concept of the original boost.
Who is this book for?
These simple leadership moves are targeted to three leadership personas:
Frustrated by poor practices, and limited management buy-in
Needs more agility than her budget and staff have produced so far
Eager to overcome excuses and barriers preventing agility
Leadership role: Influential, role-model contributor
Sample Titles: Lead Specialist, Scrum Master, Sr. Network Architect
Pains: Ted believes in doing things the right way, the modern way. However, he has serious doubts anyone else on the team could step up to new ways of working, never mind the management that’s been here forever.
Gains: He hopes the book’s practical tips & techniques will overcome the team’s resistance, and also get more management buy-in.
Leadership role: Has direct reports & budget
Sample Titles: Head of PMO, Program Manager, Director of Agile COE, Sr. Manager of Process Excellence
Pains: She’s done all the right things like training her staff and installing agile practices. However, the change just feels wrong. She sees resistant employees, inefficiencies and dependencies in the other groups, and executives distracted by other shiny objects.
Gains: She is eager to apply the ReBOUND patterns to understand why people push back on joining the transformation, and overcome bad cultural habits.
Leadership role: Leader of Leaders
Sample Titles: AVP of Product Delivery, CTO, Deputy CIO
Pains: Newly installed with a mandate for change, Emmit is exhausted by volume of issues his organization faces. In recent months, there is much talk of transformation, but little meaningful action.
Gains: He’s excited the seven patterns might help him triage his transformational investments, and change the cultural narrative from “Eventually” to “urgently”.
Untapped Bonuses
- 3P Agile Tailoring Guide Download
- Agile Leadership Canvas Download
- Untapped Agility Book Club Materials
- Untapped Agility Social Share Graphics
- 3 Persona Digital Poster
- Download Book Sample
- 3P Agile Tailoring Guide Download
- Agile Leadership Canvas Download
- Untapped Agility Book Club Materials
- Untapped Agility Social Share Graphics
- 3 Persona Digital Poster
- Download Book Sample
Jesse Fewell
Jesse Fewell is an author, coach, and trainer who helps senior leaders from Boston to Beijing transform their organizations to achieve more innovation, collaboration, and business agility. A management pioneer, he founded and grew the original Agile Community of Practice within the Project Management Institute (PMI), has served on leadership subcommittees for the Scrum Alliance, and written publications reaching over a half million readers in eleven languages. Jesse has taught, keynoted, or coached thousands of leaders and practitioners across thirteen countries on 5 continents. His industry contributions earned him a 2013 IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award.
The Untapped Tour
On Demand
JULY
5
2020
PMO Strategies Podcast
Jesse joins Laura Barnard to talk about Untapped Agility.
JUNE
30
2020
ServiceNow IT Business Management Podcast
What it means to be an agile enterprise & the role leaders have to play to make that happen.
JUNE
29
2020
OnFire B2B Podcast with Bob Clark
Fast-paced podcasts where guests answer 6 questions in 9 minutes because the best CEOs know how to be concise.
JUNE
18
2020
Project Management Office Hours Podcast
Jesse joins PMO Joe on Phoenix Business RadioX.
May
6
2020
DojoLIVE! Podcast
7 Leadership Moves to Transform your Transformation.