Book 1: Applied Enterprise Agility Live
A Field Guide for Executive Leaders
The diagnosis and intervention manual for senior leaders. Three Barriers, 23 Gaps, the Value Acceleration Process.
The Applied Agility Series
Strategy dies in the gap between the boardroom and the team room. The Applied Agility Series is the pragmatic plumbing to connect them.
Five field guides for executives and delivery teams who are tired of methodology-heavy, application-light books. Diagnostic, actionable, evidence-backed. Built on decades of combined field experience and grounded in Disciplined Agile Next.
Available Now: Applied Enterprise Agility
A Field Guide for Executive Leaders
The executive's job isn't to do Agile. It's to enable it.
Leaders are told to go agile and handed frameworks designed for teams, not enterprises. They approve transformations, fund initiatives, and wait for results that never arrive. The gaps are upstream: unclear outcomes, funding tied to projects instead of value, decision latency, feedback loops that never close.
Book 1 shifts the leader's role from Agile Sponsor to System Architect. It diagnoses the 3 Barriers (Alignment Drift, Choked Flow, Broken Feedback) and the 23 Gaps that silently kill strategy execution. It delivers the Value Acceleration Process (VAP) as the intervention model. Budget the team. Fund the increment. Diagnose the drag. Architect the flow.
Short on theory. Long on action. Read it on Sunday, fix the flow on Monday.
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The Executive Summary Edition
A 30-minute version of Book 1, for leaders who want the diagnosis before they commit to the full read.
Same diagnostic frame. Same intervention model. Compressed to the working executive's attention budget. The full book is the field guide; the Executive Summary Edition is the reconnaissance briefing.
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The Series Arc
Five books. One integrated framework. Read any one alone and it delivers. Read two and they compound. Read all five and the full system becomes operational at every altitude of a knowledge-work organization.
Book 2: Applied Team Agility Coming August 2026
A Field Guide for Value Delivery Leaders
The practitioner's handbook. Quick Start Accelerators, Team-Level VAP, Value Increments. For delivery teams stuck in framework purgatory.
Book 3: Applied Agility Transformation In development
How Leaders Unknowingly Kill Agility
Names the specific decisions that sabotage stated goals. Pattern-recognition for the C-suite.
Book 4: Applied Agility Principles In development
Breaking the Cycle That Keeps Good Teams Stuck
Operational depth on principles teams already know at bumper-sticker depth.
Book 5: Applied Agility: The Big Bank Story Concept
A Graphic Novel
Two perspectives. One whirlpool. No outside experts. The Applied Agility framework dramatized through the eyes of a CTO and a delivery lead.
Contact
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