Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos

Bain thought leader and HBR author Darrell Rigby and colleagues Sarah Elk and Steve Berez offer a clear-eyed guide to overcoming the challenges, and getting the real benefits, of transforming your company into an agile enterprise, based on Rigby’s two popular HBR articles on the topic.

• Much-needed critical take on the challenges of agile.
• Dispels myths and misconceptions about agile.
• Real-company insights on how agile works in different contexts, and how it doesn’t work in others.
• Provides roadmap for doing agile right.

Audience: Broad management audience from C-level and senior execs to managers and team leaders involved or interested in agile operations in all kinds of organizations.

Darrell Rigby is a partner in the Boston office of Bain & Company, where he leads the Global Innovation practice. He is a frequent speaker and writer on innovation, agile, and retail and has appeared on CNBC, CNN’s Moneyline, and Bloomberg. His research has been published in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Financial Times, and other publications. Sarah Elk is a partner in Bain’s Chicago office and the global head of the firm’s Operating Model practice. Steven H. Berez is a partner in Bain’s Boston office and a founding member of the firm’s Information Technology practice.

You can visit the authors on LinkedIn at:
Darrell Rigby: linkedin.com/in/darrellrigby/
Sarah Elk: linkedin.com/in/sarah-elk-6b643/
Steven H. Berez: linkedin.com/in/steveberez/