Summary of Jonathan Smart's Sooner Safer Happier

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Get the Summary of Jonathan Smart's Sooner Safer Happier in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It's no secret that we are living in the Digital Age. Technology companies make up seven of the world's ten largest firms by market capitalization. And the key to their success is the key to all modern organizations.

Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals the patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. Through his decades of experience in the technology world, Smart provides business leaders with a blueprint for creating a world-class organization of the future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669343059

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The world changed on June 26, 2018, when General Electric was removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the first time in over a century. With companies growing and shrinking faster than ever before, there is a need to be on the right side of change in order to survive and thrive.

#2

The Digital Age has led to an increase in software development, which is now an essential part of almost any company’s operation.

#3

The traditional companies are also starting to become more agile. Organized human endeavor in the Digital Age has increasingly shifted from repetitive production to unique product development.

#4

The Age of Oil and the Industrial Revolution brought about great productivity increases, but also created a class of people who were no longer needed, as machines could do the work. The same thing is happening now in the digital age.

#5

The Command-and-Control and Order-Giver-Taker approach doesn’t work for Knowledge Work, which is why this book advocates for a Different Approach.

#6

This book is about what patterns and antipatterns have worked for the authors and hundreds of other companies, and how you can apply these learnings to your unique situation.

#7

There are many books that can teach you about agile, lean, and DevOps. The intention of this book is not to cover every single topic in detail. The intent is to give you a headwind so that you can better harness the power of all the other books out there.

#8

The author is a business technologist who has been working with teams to help them improve their ways of working for the past 30 years. He has worked with many different industries and companies, and his latest position was at Barclays, a universal bank that employs about 80,000 people around the world.

#9

Many companies have tried to implement agile and lean methods, but are often met with resistance from employees who aren’t used to the new way of working.

#10

This book is for leaders at all levels in large, complex organizations who are going through a digital transformation. It is aimed at people who feel they are experiencing an antipattern, and who want to make their case to superiors, colleagues, and stakeholders about why the current ways of working are not delivering the expected outcomes.

#11

There are patterns and antipatterns that you can follow and learn from to help you along your own unique journey. This book is laid out as a series of antipatterns and their corresponding patterns.

#12

The final step, execution, is where you put the principles into practice. This is where you start to see results.

#13

The first part of the book is made up of chapters that discuss the author’s thoughts on agile, lean, and DevOps. The author believes that these methods should be used to improve a company’s processes, not just its products.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

China was able to successfully build the world’s most powerful dam, while the British government was trying to computerize the post office system and ended up wasting £1 billion on a failed project.

#2

The Chinese government is not better at building things than the UK or US governments, as both of those countries have had similar challenges with their healthcare and digital initiatives. However, the Chinese government does have a better understanding of how to work within a deterministic

Reviews for Summary of Jonathan Smart's Sooner Safer Happier

[Reinaldo · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The idea is interesting, but I stopped reading in the chapter 3. Too many errors. Perhaps I will try the original book.