Book 3 of the Applied Agility Series
Agility by Example
AI-Powered Enterprise Transformation
In development. Publish target: end of 2026.
Theory makes you smart. Doing makes you capable. This is the closest substitute for doing.
You have read the framework. You understand the diagnosis. You can recite the principles. Now you have to do it. The gap between understanding and doing is where every transformation dies.
Books 1 and 2 give you the framework. They build the vocabulary, name the failure patterns, deliver the operating method. They stop short of producing capability by design. Capability comes from doing the work, ideally with someone who has done it before to steer the judgment calls. Most leaders do not have that someone.
Agility by Example is the simulator. One enterprise initiative traced from strategic origin to customer outcome through every altitude of the framework, with the real artifacts at every station and AI integrated as integral enabler throughout. Pattern-match to your context and start.
The demonstration material a transformation champion can show the boardroom.
The principles are on the page. The practice is in the artifacts. Pattern-match to your context and start.
What's Inside
The narrative spine: one initiative traced from strategic origin to customer outcome through every altitude of the framework.
- Strategic origin. Where the initiative starts and how outcomes get named at the executive altitude.
- Initiative formation. Scoping and alignment to the portfolio.
- Portfolio shaping. Discovery, prioritization, sequencing into value increments.
- Delivery. Increments and features in execution.
- Deployment to production.
- Operations. Instrumentation, response, learning loops.
- Customer outcome. The value realized.
- Feedback loop. Closing back to strategy.
The content at every station is the real artifact, not narrative dressed up to look like one. Strategy briefs, initiative shape documents, increment definitions with acceptance criteria, feature breakdowns, sprint review scripts, operational signals, customer feedback synthesis, and the strategic re-grounding that closes the loop. The reader sees what gets produced, not what someone says gets produced.
AI as Integral Enabler
AI runs through every station as an integral enabler of the work, not a bolt-on efficiency and not a hyped substrate. The book shows what AI changes about how the work actually executes: strategic discovery, initiative and increment authoring, acceptance-criteria scaffolding, delivery, operations, and feedback synthesis.
The premise that anchors the AI integration is value-first. Everything is driven from value and measurable outcomes. AI accelerates the flow of outcomes from strategy to realization. It does not replace the framework. It enables it at speed.
How It Fits the Series
Three books. One framework. Each delivers alone.
- Book 1: Applied Enterprise Agility establishes the diagnostic at the executive altitude. The Three Barriers, the 23 Gaps, the Value Acceleration Process.
- Book 2: Applied Team Agility translates the framework to the team altitude. Quick Start Accelerators, Team-Level VAP, Value Increments.
- Book 3: Agility by Example shows the framework in execution. One initiative, end-to-end, with the real artifacts at every altitude and AI integrated as enabler throughout.
Read Books 1 and 2 first and Book 3 amplifies them. Read Book 3 first and Books 1 and 2 tell you what you are looking at. Reading order is not prescribed. Any order works.