Jamie Lynn Cooke

Agile Productivity Unleashed: Proven Approaches for Achieving Real Productivity Gains in Any Organization Jamie Lynn Cooke Second, 2 edition

Winner of the 2011 Axiom Business Book Award bronze medal for Operations Management/Productivity/TQM books.

In this new edition of her award-winning book, Jamie Lynn Cooke reveals the secrets of the Agile methodologies that have revolutionized the way that many of the world's most successful companies operate, including Google?, Yahoo!?, Nokia Siemens Networks? and Microsoft?. Written for business professionals and managers, the book explains the principles of Agile, shows why these approaches work, and demonstrates how to use Agile approaches to significantly increase productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction in any industry.

Agile approaches are designed to give you:

• A faster, more flexible and highly responsive framework, allowing your organization to leverage internal and external changes more quickly.
• Significantly more efficient use of resources and time, freeing up staff for greater innovation and value creation.
• Direct stakeholder engagement, resulting in better customer relationships and more compelling product and service development.

Agile Productivity Unleashed presents a range of proven Agile methods including Scrum®, Kanban, Feature Driven Development? (FDD?) and the Dynamic Systems Development Method® (DSDM®) in clear business language.  The author then devotes a chapter to explaining each of the 12 Agile principles that make these approaches consistently successful, and details how to use these methods to tackle the core challenges faced by every organization.

The book concludes by presenting an in-depth case study that compares Agile approaches with traditional approaches for achieving three common business objectives, followed by step-by-step guidelines to make Agile work for your organization, and a range of resources for further reading.


Read this book and learn how to unleash the potential of Agile in your organization.


The first edition of Agile Productivity Unleashed won the AXIOM Business Book Awards Bronze Medal for TQM/Productivity Books in 2011