Lean Enterprise

Jez Humble is co-author of Continuous Delivery, the Jolt-Award winning book in Martin Fowler's signature series. He has been talking about how to do Lean Startup in enterprises since the Agile 2011 conference (you can see his talk here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Innovation-at-Scale-using-Lean-Thinking). He works for ThoughtWorks, which has been consulting around Continuous Delivery and Lean and Agile software development in enterprises for many years.

Joanne Molesky is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where she works on internal IT Risk and Compliance, and provides consulting services to clients in the area of continuous delivery and process improvement, particularly as it applies to controls, risk, and compliance. She holds CISA and CRISC certifications from ISACA.

Barry O’Reilly works with ThoughtWorks, consulting with leading global organizations on continuousimprovement using lean and agile practices and principles. He has been an entrepreneur, employee, and consultant. His passion is business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and cultural transformation.

Orient
Chapter 1Introduction
A Lean Enterprise Is Primarily a Human System
Mission Command: An Alternative to Command and Control
Create Alignment at Scale Following the Principle of Mission
Your People Are Your Competitive Advantage
Chapter 2Manage the Dynamics of the Enterprise Portfolio
Exploring New Ideas
Exploiting Validated Business Models
Balancing the Enterprise Portfolio
Conclusion
Explore
Chapter 3Model and Measure Investment Risk
Model Investment Risk
Applying the Scientific Method to Product Development
Principles for Exploration
Conclusion
Chapter 4Explore Uncertainty to Detect Opportunities
Discovery
What Business Are We In?
Accelerate Experimentation with MVPs
Conclusion
Chapter 5Evaluate the Product/Market Fit
Innovation Accounting
Do Things That Don’t Scale
Engines of Growth
Transitioning Between Horizons to Grow and Transform
Conclusion
Exploit
Chapter 6Deploy Continuous Improvement
The HP LaserJet Firmware Case Study
Drive Down Costs Through Continuous Process Innovation Using the Improvement Kata
How the HP LaserJet Team Implemented the Improvement Kata
Managing Demand
Creating an Agile Enterprise
Conclusion
Chapter 7Identify Value and Increase Flow
The Maersk Case Study
Increase Flow
Cost of Delay: A Framework for Decentralizing Economic Decisions
Conclusion
Chapter 8Adopt Lean Engineering Practices
The Fundamentals of Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration and Test Automation
The Deployment Pipeline
Decouple Deployment and Release
Conclusion
Chapter 9Take an Experimental Approach to Product Development
Using Impact Mapping to Create Hypotheses for the Next Iteration
Performing User Research
Online Controlled Experiments
An A/B Test Example
Prerequisites for an Experimental Approach to Product Development
Conclusion
Chapter 10Implement Mission Command
Amazon’s Approach to Growth
Create Velocity at Scale Through Mission Command
Evolving Your Architecture Using the Strangler Application Pattern
Conclusion
Transform
Chapter 11Grow an Innovation Culture
Model and Measure Your Culture
Change Your Culture
There Is No Talent Shortage
Conclusion
Chapter 12Embrace Lean Thinking for Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Understanding Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Apply Lean Principles to GRC Processes
Map the Value Stream, Create Flow, and Establish a Pull System
Conclusion
Chapter 13Evolve Financial Management to Drive Product Innovation
Introduction
Dancing to the Beat of the Financial Drum Slows Innovation
Liberating Ourselves from the Annual Budget Cycle
Avoid Using Budgets as the Basis for Performance Measurement
Stop Basing Business Decisions on Capital Versus Operational Expense
Modify Your IT Procurement Processes to Gain Greater Control over Value Delivery
Conclusion
Chapter 14Turn IT into a Competitive Advantage
Rethinking the IT Mindset
Freedom and Responsibility
Creating and Evolving Platforms
Managing Existing Systems
Conclusion
Chapter 15Start Where You Are
Principles of Organizational Change
The UK Government Digital Service
Begin Your Journey
Conclusion