Jonathan Smart

About The Author

Jonathan Smart has been leading an agile approach to change as a business technologist for nearly thirty years, starting out as a developer on the trading floor in investment banking. Today, Smart leads Deloitte's Business Agility practice, helping organizations deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through the application of Agile, Lean, and DevOps principles and practices organization wide. Previously Smart lead Ways of Working globally for Barclays Bank where his teams, on average, delivered three times as much in a third of the time, with fewer production incidents and the highest ever employee engagement scores. He and his team won the Best Internal Agile Team award at the Agile Awards in 2016. Smart is also the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network, a member of the Programming Committee for the DevOps Enterprise Summit, a member of the Business Agility Institute Advisory Council, a guest speaker at London Business School, and speaks at numerous conferences a year.

Books by Jonathan Smart

The IT/OT Handbook

The Practitioner's Guide to IT and OT Cooperation in Manufacturing: From Silos to Sustainable Digitalization

By David Ariens and Willem van Lammeren
Foreword by Richard Beeson
The practical guide to bridging manufacturing's most expensive divide: operations vs. information technology, where metal meets code.
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Sooner Safer Happier

Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility

By Jonathan Smart
With Zsolt Berend
"This is one of the most important Agile books since The Phoenix Project." ?Charles Betz, author, instructor, and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

Drive real change through actual business outcomes, not rigid practices and a handful of buzzwords.

Being Agile isn’t...
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