"What [Jon] has achieved and created to help others succeed is nothing short of exceptional." --Barry O'Reilly, author of Unlearn and Lean Enterprise

"Sooner Safer Happier nails the point that many leaders miss--transformation in itself is not a worthy goal, it is a vehicle for optimizing business outcomes." --David Silverman, coauthor of Team of Teams

"Jonathan Smart's book is a timely call-to-action for organizations that wish to survive and thrive in the emerging digitally-enabled, people-centric landscape." --Matthew Skelton, coauthor of Team Topologies

"The theory is sound; the practice is extensive. I strongly recommend this book." --Dave Snowden, author of Cynefin: Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of our World

Winner of the Bronze Medal in Leadership from the Axiom Business Book Awards.

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.

Through Agile and Lean ways of working, business leaders can empower teams to improve production, grow together, and create better services for their customers. These better ways of working have overflowed from the IT department to every corner of successful organizations, taking root in every industry from aerospace to accounting, insurance to shipping.

This book is not about software development. It is not a book about the computer industry. This book is about applying agility across the entire organization. It's a book that will put you at the front of change and ahead of the competition.

"This is one of the most important Agile books since The Phoenix Project." --Charles Betz, Principle Analyst, Forrester Research

**Note from the Authors: Purchases will result in the planting of trees and empowerment of women, in countries with the lowest scores on the IUCN's gender and environment index. It's not just carbon neutral, purchases in any format will result in, on average, 10x greater carbon offset.