Agile Outside of Software Book recommendations?

[Mark Levison]

I have a group of people who want to see more examples of Agile outside of Software. I always recommend: https://www.amazon.ca/Hacking-Marketing-Practices-Smarter-Innovative/dp/1119183170/ 

I'm looking for a couple of other books with enough depth that they show the warts and not just the happy/easy stuff. (Scrum, Kanban, XP all welcome). A challenge I see - in Scrum and Kanban we assume standard work which allows us to create a Definition of "Done" or a policy for when an item moves from one lane to the next. When the work is wildly variant - creating a document one day (text/word doc); producing marketing collateral (graphic design) and plans (text again - but the quality measures are different) - its very hard to have a common "Done" and therefore raise quality. There is a similar issue around engineering practices.

Looked at Business Agility website - many recommendations but they're mostly Leadership or Software books, none that I could find about doing the work. I already have my own list of articles here: https://agilepainrelief.com/scrummaster-resources-and-references#agile-outside-of-software but none put enough meat on the bones

I'm hoping that if I find a couple of good books that go into depth, I can workshop these books with the clients and we can all learn how to help them on their journey.

Suggestions?

Mark

[Pierre Neis]

Sorry, mine https://leanpub.com/thenewnormalaoconceptsandpatternsof21-stcenturyagileorganizations

The last 12 years, I worked mostly out of software development and I collected some common patterns.

Various contexts: finance, Asset Management, Research, Manufacturing, HR and whole organization.

Some free slidedecks are available here: https://agilesqr.com/free-downloads/ : Agile Activate (Agile in SAP Digital Programs i.e. configuration management or migration), Digital Finance (agile org models for the SAP Global Finance Administration transformation as an agile enterprise -> 5 000 people).

Pierre NEIS, CAC5  agile² GmbH Co-founder of #play14 Agile Org Coach & Consultant Gaisbergstrasse 41 | D-69115 Heidelberg ✉︎: pierr...@agilesqr.com ☎︎: +49 160 998 724 49 Online Booking:: https://neis.youcanbook.me     Author of The New Normal : AO concepts and patterns of 21-st century agile organizations. Buy here

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[Mark Levison]

Pierre any suggestions are welcome. I bought the book and started skimming.

Cheers

Mark

[Andrew Webster]

There's Gil Broza's book "Agile for Non-software Teams" https://3pvantage.com/afnst-book/ 

Full disclosure, nope, I've not read it, but there it is anyhow!  Worth a shot.

- Andrew

[Mark Levison]

Andrew - of course I should have remembered Gil. Thanks for helping tweak my small brain.

Cheers

Mark