Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale—and demonstrates why and how to apply these methodologies throughout your organization, rather than with just one department or team.

Through case studies, you’ll learn how successful enterprises have rethought everything from governance and financial management to systems architecture and organizational culture in the pursuit of radically improved performance. Adopting Lean will take time and commitment, but it’s vital for harnessing the cultural and technical forces that are accelerating the rate of innovation.

• Discover how Lean focuses on people and teamwork at every level, in contrast to traditional management practices
• Approach problem-solving experimentally, by exploring solutions, testing assumptions, and getting feedback from real users
• Lead and manage large-scale programs in a way that empowers employees, increases the speed and quality of delivery, and lowers costs
• Learn how to implement ideas from the DevOps and Lean Startup movements even in complex, regulated environments

Table of Contents

Part I. Orient
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Manage the Dynamics of the Enterprise Portfolio

Part II. Explore
Chapter 3. Model and Measure Investment Risk
Chapter 4. Explore Uncertainty to Detect Opportunities
Chapter 5. Evaluate the Product/Market Fit

Part III. Exploit
Chapter 6. Deploy Continuous Improvement
Chapter 7. Identify Value and Increase Flow
Chapter 8. Adopt Lean Engineering Practices
Chapter 9. Take an Experimental Approach to Product Development
Chapter 10. Implement Mission Command

Part IV. Transform
Chapter 11. Grow an Innovation Culture
Chapter 12. Embrace Lean Thinking for Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Chapter 13. Evolve Financial Management to Drive Product Innovation
Chapter 14. Turn IT into a Competitive Advantage
Chapter 15. Start Where You Are