"What [Jon] has achieved and created to help others succeed is nothing
short of exceptional." --Barry O'Reilly, author of Unlearn and Lean
Enterprise "Sooner Safer Happier nails the point that many leaders
miss--transformation in itself is not a worthy goal, it is a vehicle for
optimizing business outcomes." --David Silverman, coauthor of Team of
Teams "Jonathan Smart's book is a timely call-to-action for
organizations that wish to survive and thrive in the emerging
digitally-enabled, people-centric landscape." --Matthew Skelton,
coauthor of Team Topologies "The theory is sound; the practice is
extensive. I strongly recommend this book." --Dave Snowden, author of
Cynefin: Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of our World Winner of the
Bronze Medal in Leadership from the Axiom Business Book Awards. Jonathan
Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals
the patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every
industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high
levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. Through his decades of
experience in the technology world, Smart provides business leaders with
a blueprint for creating a world-class organization of the future.
Through Agile and Lean ways of working, business leaders can empower
teams to improve production, grow together, and create better services
for their customers. These better ways of working have overflowed from
the IT department to every corner of successful organizations, taking
root in every industry from aerospace to accounting, insurance to
shipping. This book is not about software development. It is not a book
about the computer industry. This book is about applying agility across
the entire organization. It's a book that will put you at the front of
change and ahead of the competition. "This is one of the most important
Agile books since The Phoenix Project." --Charles Betz, Principle
Analyst, Forrester Research **Note from the Authors: Purchases will
result in the planting of trees and empowerment of women, in countries
with the lowest scores on the IUCN's gender and environment index. It's
not just carbon neutral, purchases in any format will result in, on
average, 10x greater carbon offset.
