Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

A curated collection of HBR's latest, smartest, and most urgent articles on agile.

This collection curates the latest and most important thinking on agile, a topic that all leaders and managers need to be up to speed and conversant on. It provides a range of diverse contributors and viewpoints with clear takeaways, spanning from foundational basics to research and use cases, all with HBR's quality and rigour. This book introduces readers to the topic.

It offers the essential basics and prepares readers for more in-depth engagement. For intermediates, it provides a refresher on the topic's basics and extends their knowledge with HBR's most cutting-edge, forward-looking, and provocative content. This book answers the question, "What does HBR have to say about agile?" for customers who have read authored books on the topic or who are coming to the brand for a trusted perspective on a topic they have yet to explore deeply.

Audience: Leaders and managers who need to get up to speed quickly on agile: to understand the basics, consult with the right people, keep up with their competitors and colleagues, understand the potential impact for their team/company/industry, and reinvent their business for the future.

Think agile is just for product and software development? Think again.

If you're a leader in an organisation with agile teams, you might think you don't need to know the details as long as the work gets done. However, 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 organisation, 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, enabling your company to develop offerings faster, react to market fluctuations, and ensure your strategy and people can adapt at a moment's notice.