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Business is changing. The old emphasis on agility in the IT department has now been extended to the whole business. Everybody has to become smarter. Everybody has to learn how to respond to new market conditions. Businesses want to be more agile, but the new framework for success is flow,

Flow is the toolset you need to give your career a lift and to help transform your organisation into a truly agile business. It is the new business agile playbook but so much more, full of ideas on how to create value more effectively.

The handbook guides you through the new skills and tools you need to go beyond lean and agile. How to truly harness customer centricity, how to segment markets so that you can target innovation accurately, how to limit the backlog of work, and how to allocate resources more effectively.

For leaders and developers in IT it provides a guide to managing key aspects of your work in a more visual setting. For the whole business it provides a blueprint for bringing IT and the business together in a common purpose with shared ways to work and a common culture of openness and collaboration. Flow is the ultimate guide to changing your culture and work practices, embracing new ways to work and the faster rates of innovation made possible by the Cloud.

For individuals this book provides an opportunity to up-skill, not just as an agile team member but also to create a career in change management. For companies, ti spells out some of the key steps in digital transformation. It will benefit people in marketing who need to know more about the new opportunities presented by 21st century IT and it will benefit project managers, the PMO office, agile coaches, scrum masters, software engineers and people in the business who want to learn how to collaborate more effectively.

Whether you are in software engineering or in business innovation, you need the techniques outlined in Flow.The books lessons are drawn from actual examples and practices of transforming organisations. Its authors are pioneers of Flow practices. In this book they set out lessons learned in a highly illustrated, wonderfully designed book that is easy to read and packed with information on how transformative organisations now work.

You should buy Flow if:
You are participating in any transformation activity
You work in a fast paced innovative workplace
You want to understand advances in agile as a practice
You want to enhance your career by learning more about the future of agile in business
You want to broaden your skills and become a leader in agile transformation.

It is written for:
Project managers
Business leaders
Scrum masters
Software engineers and developers who want to expand their career horizons
Business analysts who want to learn more about IT
Business analysiss who want to re-engage with customers
Producer owners and product managers
Digital marketers
HR Professionals who want to understand changing roles.

Contents include:
A primer on the impact of digital technology on work
The benefits of more social interaction for collaboration in the workplace
The importance of transparency in leadership and how to achieve it
Introducing visible work
Modern leadership qualities
Flow teams
Collaborative work design
Just-in-time strategy
And the organisation as a learning model.

Flow should be read in conjunction with 12 Steps to Flow, a primer on each of the steps necessary to create a digital and agile culture. It helps large enterprises prepare for this essential change. But uniquely for a business book it does so through highly graphical illustrations that reflect a core message of the book: visualise everything.

It will teach you how to accelerate the pace and scope of innovation by integrating Agile and Lean methodology with new principles of continuous innovation.

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Haydn Shaughnessy