Real World Agility
Too many organisations mistake activity for impact, tracking velocity, story points, retrospectives, and feature delivery instead of real outcomes. Teams get stuck in rigid frameworks, chasing outputs over outcomes and missing real value. Real World Agility cuts through the noise with practical insights into what actually works and what doesn’t when applying agility in practice.
This book is for Agile practitioners, Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Managers, and leaders who want to deliver better results.
What You’ll Learn
- How to measure the impact of working differently
- Common agility pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Measuring team agility at scale, regardless of framework
- Real case studies from large organisations, not just theory
Praise for Real World Agility
Packed with real-world experiments, successes, and failures, this book is an indispensable guide for those who want to move beyond cargo cult behaviours and create tangible value at the same time as continuously improving. A must-read for modern ways of working practitioners.Jon Smart, author of Sooner, Safer, Happier
Nicolas has written the book I wish I had years ago—one that prioritizes data, experimentation, and impact. His pragmatic take on agility aligns with how modern teams should measure and improve their effectiveness.Troy Magennis, President at Focused Objective, LLC and CTO at Predictability At Scale
Nick has navigated the real world of agility and is handing the reader the compass. This book makes very little mention of frameworks and instead focuses on practical lessons from real experience, with evidence included for good measure.Prateek Singh, author of Scaling Simplified
Real World Agility is the book I wish more agile practitioners had in their hands. Nick moves beyond theory and frameworks to focus on what actually drives results - testing ideas with real experiments and hard data.Colleen Johnson, CEO at ProKanban.org
Nick delivers a refreshingly honest, results-driven approach to agility in Real World Agility. Ditching theory and rigid frameworks, he dives into real-world experiments, showing what works, and what doesn’t, through data-backed insights.Helen Meek, Agile Coach, Trainer & Consultant and Co-Founder of the Agile Coaching Exchange