Humble Jez - Lean enterprise adopting continous delivery, devops, and lean startup at scale

This book is Reengineering the Corporation for the digital age. It is destined to be the classic, authoritative reference for how organizations plan, organize, implement, and measure their work. Lean Enterprise describes how organizations can win in the marketplace while harnessing and developing the capabilities of employees. Any business leader who cares about creating competitive advantage through technology and building a culture of innovation needs to read this book.

Gene Kim, co-author of The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, founder and former CTO of Tripwire, Inc.

This book is a godsend for anyone whos tried to change their organization and heard: Its OK for the little guy, but were too big/regulated/complex to work like that here. Humble, Molesky, and OReilly have written an easy-to-read guide that demystifies the success of Lean organizations in a way that everyone can understand and apply. Lean Enterprise provides a pragmatic toolkit of strategies and practices for establishing high performing organizations. It should be required reading for every executive who understands that were all in the technology business now.

Stephen Foreshew-Cain, COO, UK Government Digital Service

To thrive in the digital world, transformation must be more than technology driveneveryone within the organization must collectively work together to adapt. This book provides an essential guide for all leaders to change the way they deliver value to customers.

Matt Pancino, CEO, Suncorp Business Services

This is the book Ive been waiting forone that takes on the hardest questions in bringing Lean approaches to the enterprise. The authors provide solutions that are valuable even in low trust environments.

Mark A. Schwartz (@schwartz_cio)

This book integrates into a compelling narrative the best current thinking about how to create great software-intensive products and services. The approach in this book is both challenging and disciplined, and some organizations will be unable to imagine following this path. But those who make the journey will find it impossible to imagine ever going backand if they happen to be a competitor, they are well positioned to steal both your market and your people. Ignore this book at your own risk.

Mary Poppendieck, co-author of The Lean Mindset and the Lean Software Development series

My job is to support people in practicing a scientific pattern, to help reshape thinking and working habits in business, politics, education, and daily life. The 21st century is increasingly demanding a way of working thats cognitively complex, interpersonal, iterative, and even entrepreneurial. With Lean Enterprise, Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry OReilly explain how software can and is leading the way to transforming our ways of working, which can change our ways of thinking and help us adapt to the emerging world around us.

Mike Rother, author of Toyota Kata

Nearly all industries and institutions are being disrupted through the rapid advance of technology, guided by the inspired vision of individuals and teams. This book clearly explains how the disciplines of Lean, Agile, Kata, Lean Startup, and Design Thinking are converging through the unifying principles of an adaptive learning organization.

Steve Bell, Lean Enterprise Institute faculty, author of Lean IT and Run Grow Transform

Building software the right way is a challenging task in and of itself, but Lean Enterprise goes beyond the technology considerations to guide organizations on how to quickly build the right software to deliver expected business results in a low risk fashion. This is a must read for any organization that provides software based services to its customers.

Gary Gruver, VP of Release, QE, and Operations for Macys.com

To compete in the future businesses need to be skilled at understanding their customers and taking the validated learnings to market as quickly as possible. This requires a new kind of adaptive and learning organizationthe lean enterprise. The journey starts here in this book!

John Crosby, Chief Product and Technology Officer, lastminute.com

Rapid advancements in technology are creating unparalleled rates of disruption. The rules of the disruption game have changed, and many organizations wonder how to compete as new giants emerge with a different approach to serving their customers. This book provides an essential guide to those that have come to the realization that they have to change to regain an innovative competitive advantage but are unsure where to start.

Jora Gill, Chief Digital Officer, The Economist

``Lean Enterprise was the book I gave my leadership team to get everyone on the same page about how we can challenge the status quo, remove roadblocks, and out-innovate our competition. By leveraging the continual insights we get from co-creating with customers, our people, and data, we now have so many additional new ways to grow our business.''

Don Meij, CEO, Dominos Pizza Enterprises Ltd.

While agile and lean methods have had a big impact on software delivery, their true potential only comes as they have a broader impact on enterprises of all sizes. In this book, Jez, Joanne, and Barry have set out what those changes look likea realistic vision of how future companies will make todays look like cassette tape players.

Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks

This is an important book. It takes an informed and informative look at the fundamentals that need to shift to start building organizations capable of continuous learning and improvement. It moves well beyond the technical to the organizational. Lean Enterprise is a must-read for existing and emerging leaders seeking to ensure their companys ongoing success.

Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX, and Principal of Neo Innovation

I was telling everyone to get this book for a year before it was finished. It documents the path being taken by the leading lean enterprises and the fat ones will be wiped out by the lean ones in the years to come.

Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco)