EDGE Value–Driven Digital Transformation

Jim Highsmith is one of the world's leading agile pioneers and a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto. He, Linda Luu, and David Robinson know from their vast in-the-trenches experience that sustainable digital transformation requires far more than adopting isolated agile practices or conventional portfolio management. This hard, indispensable work involves changing culture and mindset, and going beyond transforming the IT department.
EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset in the face of market uncertainty, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continual value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and better risk mitigation. This guide shows leaders how to use the breakthrough EDGE approach to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunities.
Build an organization that adapts fast enough to thriveClear away unnecessary governance processes, obsolete "command and control" leadership approaches, and slow budgeting/planning cyclesImprove collaboration when major, fast-paced responses are necessaryContinually optimize investment allocation and monitoring based on your vision and goals