Summary: <p>Steve Denning is a thought leader <em>par excellence</em> in the Agile industry. With six successful business books and 600 articles on Forbes, which collectively deal with radical changes is leadership, management and storytelling, Steve has been a vocal proponent for Agile for years. In this Agile In-Depth podcast, SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett discusses with Steve the 3 Laws of Agile and how simplicity is the strongest weapon to combat complexity. Steve is also promoting <a href="http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-training/business-agility-2017/">the upcoming inaugural Business Agility conference</a>, which SolutionsIQ and Agile Amped will be onsite to capture!</p><br> <p>Here are some sound bites to whet your appetite:</p><br> <ul> <li>"We are moving towards a world I think where... Agile will simply be management, and the normal way to run a company will be Agile."</li> <br> <li>Instead of scaling the organization up... it's de-scaling the work down to small pieces, small teams, small batches, small cycles... (In this way) you can in fact handle some very large, complex problems."</li> <br> <li>"An obsession with delivering value to the customer... and giving everyone a clear line of sight to the ultimate end user."</li> <br> <li>"Culture is a verb, not a noun."</li> <br> <li>"The biggest risk is on-boarding people at the senior level... If they are not on the same page, then the organization is heading for immediate problems."</li> <br> </ul><h3>Further Resources</h3><br> <ul> <li>"<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2016/09/08/explaining-agile/#4e17eb812ef7">Explaining Agile</a>" (Forbes article by Steve Denning)</li> <br> <li><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/#7066d95063f7">Steve Denning on Forbes</a></li> <br> <li><a href="http://www.stevedenning.com/About/default.aspx">stevedenning.com</a></li> <br> </ul>
