Where should you start?
System problem, not team problem
I want to understand why team agility is not enough.
If your teams are getting faster but the organization still feels slow, Rethinking Agile is the best place to start.
Go to the bookApply Flight Levels
I want to use Flight Levels in practice.
If you want to design work across teams, value streams, and strategy, Flight Levels is the practical guide.
Go to the bookImprove everyday flow
I want to improve operational work systems.
If flow, Kanban, WIP, blockers, and continuous improvement are your main concerns, the Kanban and flow books are the right deep dive.
Go to the deep dives
Klaus Leopold
Rethinking Agile
Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do With Business Agility
Many agile transformations start where the problem is most visible: with the teams. That is rarely enough. The real bottlenecks often sit in dependencies, prioritization, governance, and collaboration across multiple levels.
Rethinking Agile tells the story of a large transformation and shows why business agility emerges when you stop rolling out methods and start designing the work system.
For you if you ...
- want to understand why team agility alone does not create business agility,
- lead or need to redirect an agile transformation,
- want a clear management entry point into Flight Levels.
Klaus Leopold, Siegfried Kaltenecker
Flight Levels
Leading Organizations with Business Agility
Once it is clear that the organization must be improved as a system, the next question is practical: how do you design that system? Flight Levels provides the thinking and design model.
The book explains horizons, core activities, Flight Items, Flight Routes, preparing Flight Levels initiatives, and designing Flight Level 2 and Flight Level 3 systems.
For you if you ...
- want to apply Flight Levels, not just understand the idea,
- need to connect value streams, strategy, and operational work,
- are looking for practical guidance for Flight Levels system design.
Deepen Kanban and flow
These books are the right deep dive if you want to improve operational work systems: make flow visible, limit WIP, understand blockers, and embed continuous improvement in daily work.
