Michael K. Spayd - Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework™ to Think and Lead Differently

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Agile Transformation is a wonderful, very readable, and very important book. What makes virtually all other books on transformation, leadership, and business so inadequate is their partial, incomplete, and non-inclusive character. This is exactly the inadequacy handled by Agile Transformation through the use of Integral metatheory, a systemic framework built to be as comprehensive as possible. Thus, Agile Transformation is as inclusive as can be, and that is what makes this book so incredibly important. So if you are engaged in a transformation, I strongly recommend that you not continue to be fractured and broken in your own approach, but step up to the wholeness and completeness of Agile Transformation.

Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision

This book does not pull its punches. From the first page to the last, the Agile Transformation operating system works the simple and core truth about transforming an organizationit depends on you being transformed. There will be no Agile organizational transformation otherwise. There is much in this book that will help you learn about how to implement a successful Agile Transformation, but it is all for naught if you dont embody and lead the change. You are the vessel. It wont change unless you do. If youre serious about having your Agile Transformation succeed, read this book.

Bob Anderson, chairman, The Leadership Circle

Its difficult to keep your focus sharp while broadening your perspective, but that is what Michele and Michael have pulled off in their new book on leading Agile Transformation. Impressively succinct, they provide straightforward tools and essential advice that will be useful for all leaders of transformation initiatives. So how did they do it? Well, for one thing, rather than positioning traditional and Agile-inspired management viewpoints as locked in combat, as many of their predecessors have done, they show how they are equally important, complementary features of a single unifying framework. Just as important, they know what is imperative, what to simplify, and what to ignore, the kind of knowledge that can only be distilled from decades of experience.

Charlie Rudd, chairman and CEO, SolutionsIQ, an Accenture company

This is a must-read for any leader embarking on or in the midst of an Agile Transformation. Michele Madore and Michael Spayds integral approach provides organizations with tremendous insights into how to overcome the pitfalls of process-centric transformations that are all too common. They have done a brilliant job of making clear, relatable, and actionable what many see as the most nebulous aspects of leading transformation.

Shannon Ewan, managing director, ICAgile

Michele and Michael have written a beautiful book about change, intertwining their in-depth knowledge and vast experience with Agile Transformations. It gave me a vocabulary and understanding of the change territory, so now I have a way to navigate, too, and at the same time, it has nudged me gently to start exploring the same and go for my own development journey.

Zvonimir Durcevic, enterprise Agile coach

Agile Transformation

Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework
to Think and Lead Differently

Michael K. Spayd

Michele Madore

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In todays business world, Agile Transformations have become the norm. The journey from Agile as a means of software development to thinking of Agile as a means to achieve organizational agility has been trodden by many who have influenced and shaped the thinking in this space over the last two decades. The challenges, resistance, failures, and successes of many individuals and organizations have all contributed to the way in which we continue to learn and adjust course. When we come to recognize that we all play a part in making true agility possible for organizations, it is then that we will have a shared unified vision of a reimagined organizationwe will truly see, in the deepest way, where we are, where we want to go, and what is missing. This book is written from that deepest place within us: from our experiences, our passion and sometimes our loss of passion, our successes and our failures, our joys in achieving our purpose and our pain when that purpose is not realized, and, ultimately, our understanding of and seeing what is missing and what we believe is possible.