Agile Grande Chapter 3 has been released
Kartar’s being tailed by a very large Russian. The Chinese Ministry of State Security thinks Kartar stole their Semtex to blow up Trump’s wall. Mr. Cherneski is reversing Kartar’s organizational transformation. And Kartar agonizes for a way to overcome his management’s cognitive biases.
The writing of Agile Grande continues:
You can read what’s been written at LeanPub for free. Get a copy now because maybe later I’ll charge a MINT! For the best reading experience, I recommend reading epubs with an iPad using Apple’s Books (Books used to be called iBooks).
More about Chapter 3:
The hero, Kartar, realizes he’ll never get management to stop undoing his organizational change work until he finds a tool to break through preconceived biases. He starts working on an idea that he needs to use a visual system of analysis to switch people’s brains from the slap dash system one thinking to the more rational system two, but he gets interrupted by a large stranger who has followed him from Long Beach California to a container ship in the Arabian Sea.
Mr. Cherneksy, the VP who is making millions by taking advantage of his organization’s complexity, prepares his son, Studebaker, to help him use this new Agile transformation to his advantage. Cherneski also discovers that Kartar’s daughter is dating his son.
And then there is Dharma, Kartar’s daughter. It turns out she is “raising the bar” on the amount of trouble a daughter can bring to her father.
Another complication shows its teeth…
The Ministry of State Security watches the news too and they aren’t happy about the negative attention about PLA (People’s Liberation Army) Semtex that found its way to the USA and blew up their president’s favorite infrastructure project: a wall between the US and Mexico. So they’ve put their best dachshund on the job: Daxian. (Pronounced “Dah-she-an”.) This agent, an expert of geomancy, is hot on Kartar’s trail and has a Chinese destroyer at her beck and call.
What could go wrong?
Remember Star Wars THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK? When at the end, Luke loses his hand, C3PO gets blow to pieces, and Han Solo gets frozen in carbonate? Chapter 3 is that moment. And by the end of this chapter, you’re going to be left wondering if Kartar will even get a chapter 4.
What’s to come if Kartar lives to see chapter 4?
- More about Dharma’s secrets
- Kartar learns to use systems thinking in a social manner that overcomes biases
- Kartar learns why “whole product focus” is so important
- Kartar discovers how to solve multi-team agile (systems) problems (critical for enterprises wanting improve their delivery performance)
