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Extreme Agility

Michael Küsters

There's no change without change - in "Extreme Agility", you will be introduced to many extreme ideas that conflict with traditional business organization.

This book confronts you with an extremist view of agility to stimulate your thinking where an agile journey could take you: Will you dare go there?

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Don't learn from others.

Stop improving processes.

Make customers unhappy.

There is no change without change: "Extreme Agility" contains over eighty concepts that contradict everything you have learned, experienced and believed. You will explore concepts so extreme that opening your thoughts will spark change!

Read a collection of seemingly crazy proposals and anecdotes from a seasoned CTO, coach and consultant - and explore a parallel working world where nothing is the way you know it - then make that world your own!

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Michael Küsters

Michael helps companies and people become more agile by providing coaching, training and consulting in agile frameworks, principles and mindset.

As author, he is sharing his insights and experiences with people seeking for new ways to achieve even more than before.

Michael has consulted for a wide range of companies from small start-up to international corporation, transforming teams, divisions and entire organizations. He is a seasoned veteran with Scrum, Kanban, XP, LeSS and SAFe, Lean and Six Sigma and harnesses this vast experience for his clients' success.

Before experiencing agility, Michael has worked in all traditional IT roles - analyst, developer, tester, operations, support, project manager, division head - even CTO. He also draws on a vast experience as agile team member, Scrum Master and Product Owner.

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. It’s all about change
  2. The intention of this book

Philosophy

  1. Success is optional
  2. There is no failure
  3. Abandon your goals
  4. Nobody has any rights
  5. Don’t learn from others
  6. Reveal your secrets
  7. Be without past
  8. Problems are good

Attitude

  1. Don’t go to work
  2. Lazy is good
  3. Stop using adjectives
  4. Nothing is urgent
  5. Nothing is important
  6. Not now!
  7. Work Done doesn’t matter
  8. ToDo doesn’t matter, either

Collaboration

  1. Get rid of the boss
  2. Adults don’t need permission
  3. Trust nobody
  4. Get your Pants down!
  5. Smart is dumb, dumb is smart

Meetings

  1. Triple the meeting time
  2. Forget appointments
  3. Stop having meetings
  4. Take time to chit-chat
  5. More and longer coffee breaks

Management

  1. Management is for stupid people
  2. General Management doesn’t work
  3. Managing people is waste
  4. Don’t be a manager

Structure

  1. Experience is unhelpful
  2. Eliminate the business side
  3. Stop people from doing their job
  4. Have fewer people
  5. Avoid organizational frameworks
  6. You have no idea who your architect is
  7. Governance is a corporate dysfunction
  8. Scatter the team
  9. Consider anarchy
  10. Shred your backlog

Metrics

  1. Numbers always lie
  2. To measure is ignorance
  3. Performance is a myth
  4. Metrics are worthless

Process

  1. Abolish your processes
  2. Shut down your ALM tool
  3. Abolish best practices
  4. Stop Multitasking
  5. Be idle
  6. Stop reviewing others’ work
  7. “Plan B” is a waste of time
  8. Burn your documentation
  9. Destabilize your processes
  10. Stop improving processes
  11. Optimize locally
  12. Do everything twice

Finances

  1. Stop managing costs
  2. Lose money
  3. ROI is stupid
  4. Don’t plan for profit
  5. Spend as much as possible
  6. Give your product for free
  7. Shut down your services
  8. Invest into removing features

Customers

  1. Ignore your customers
  2. Upset your customers
  3. Disgruntled customers are the best
  4. Let contracts end
  5. Send them to the competition!

Leadership advice

  1. Stop motivating your team
  2. Create Problems
  3. Bring me problems, not solutions!
  4. Hard Sales are bad deals
  5. Actively do nothing
  6. Refrain from making decisions
  7. Discourage quick fixes
  8. Cross deadlines
  9. Increase idle time
  10. Allow security incidents
  11. Safety is an illusion
  12. Focus on harm

For Developers

  1. Get crappy equipment
  2. Limit code size
  3. Limit development time
  4. Stop branching
  5. Push to Production
  6. Close your test environment
  7. Turn off your automation

Closing Remarks

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