- Purpose, Background, and Goals
- Who Should Read this Book?
- How This Book Is Organized
- Challenges
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Who Should Read this Book?
The kata by itself is a universal pattern for any kind of improvement, and Part I could be especially beneficial for anyone who wants to improve any situation, Agile or not.
Parts II and III connect the kata with Agile ways of working. For example, if you are in the role of an Agile coach, scrum master, project manager, or change agent whose goal is to increase agility, all three parts of this book should give you fresh new ideas and tools to improve. Because Agile Kata is a universal pattern that touches potentially any type of team, testers, developers, architects, and user-interface designers can get some fresh new ideas for working together as well—in that case, as an IT team.
If you are an executive or leader, Agile Kata can give you new ideas for implementing Agile strategies, effecting cultural change, and transforming organizational design. You may also consider using Agile Kata to provide a new way of working with your peers or teams.
If you are a member of a project management office or portfolio management team, Agile Kata can spark new ideas and create additional viewpoints using experimentation, goals, or targets.
Change agents looking for a new change-management process that introduces more agility to their organization will hopefully find new inspiration in Agile Kata.
Last but not least, members of a product management team may use Agile Kata for designing new ways to interact with their stakeholders and build product visions and product strategies. They may even use Agile Kata for building the actual product. Agile Kata is as universal as it is exciting.
Whatever your motivations are when you decided to read about this topic, I hope you find it refreshingly new and that you gain a new perspective. If you find more success as a result of using the kata, I would be thrilled to know. Beware: Applying Agile Kata is highly addictive and may captivate you beyond reading this book. (At least that is what happened to me when I started my journey.)
