"Think agile is just for product and software development? Think again. If you're a leader in an organization with agile teams, you might think you don't need to know the details as long as the work gets done. But agile is here to stay and is poised to move beyond IT and project management teams into other business units, even HR. If you're still using top-down planning across your organization, your company will fall to competitors that are nimbler than you. Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand today's most essential thinking on the latest agile practices, so your company can develop offerings faster, react to fluctuations in the market, and ensure your strategy and people can adapt at a moment's notice"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

Agile at scale -- how to go from a few teams to hundreds / by Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, and Andy Noble -- Why agile goes awry, and how to fix it -- spoiler: focusing too much on process or avoiding long-term goals / by Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi -- How to make sure agile teams can work together -- combine and recombine essential expertise, without burnout / by Alia Crocker, Rob Cross, and Heidi K. Gardner -- How Nextdoor addressed racial profiling on its platform -- a data-oriented and agile approach helped the social network recover -- quickly / by Phil Simon -- HR Goes agile -- agile isn't just for tech anymore -- it's transforming how organizations hire, develop, and manage their people / by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis -- How to make agile work for the c-suite -- set the tone for your organization by incorporating agile practices into your work as leader / by Eric Garton and Andy Noble -- How agile teams can help turnarounds succeed -- tap the people who are better at handling variable and unpredictable situations / by Darrell K. Rigby, Simon Henderson, and Marco D'Avino -- Making process improvements stick -- don't let early excitement lead to backsliding / by Harvard Business Review.