Agile Leadership
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The document discusses agile leadership and how it has evolved with the pace of change in business. It notes that organizations need to change from reacting to initiating in order to keep up. Agile principles focus on individuals, interactions, customer collaboration, and responding to change. Agile leadership requires leading with agility, inspiring a vision, empowering self-organizing teams, and facilitating organizational change through continuous learning and improvement. Anyone can develop agile leadership skills with an understanding of agile mindsets and values.
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- 2. Old World Big changes every few decades or multiple years
- 3. New World small(er) changes every few quarters months weeks days daily hour…
- 4. So, what’s changed? Things change all the time! Markets, Customers, Products, Tech, People… Pace of change has changed! Episodic => Incremental => Continuous We also need to change! Reacting => Responding => Initiating
- 5. Are old models effective? Standish Group Chaos Report 2015 Successful: 29% Challenged: 52% Failed: 19% Standish Group Chaos Report 1994 Successful: 16% Challenged: 53% Failed: 31%
- 7. What all changes with agile? Individual Team Leadership Organization (not discussing today)
- 9. T-shaped Individual TDeepExpertiseina functionalarea Broad Ability in adjoining areas
- 11. Why stop at T? http://irisclasson.com/2013/07/08/stupid-question-218-what-are-t-shaped-pi-shaped-and-comb-shaped-skills- and-which-one-should-i-aim-for/
- 14. Rarity of Skills vs. Value https://blog.scrum.org/professional-scrum-developer/
- 16. Component vs. Feature Teams UI MW DB BE f1 f2 f3 f4 UI MW DB BE f1 f2 f3 f4 Component Team Feature Team
- 19. Self-Organising Teams M anagem ent Responsibility Team ’sO w n Responsibility Setting overall direction Designing the team and its organisational context Monitoring and managing work process and progress Executing the team task Manager-led Teams Self-managing Teams Self-designing Teams Self-governing Teams
- 20. From Group to a Team…
- 21. Role of Manager?
- 22. What is Leadership? NOT Leadership Me Ego Title Role Pride Power Genius Process Position Charisma Shortcuts Dictating Knowing Hierarchy Status Quo Management Micromanagement IS Leadership We. Team. Action. Doing. Vision. People. Inspire. Support. Integrity. Learning. Humility. Direction. Networks. Creativity. Influence. Openness. Situational. Right Thing. New Grounds. Empowerment
- 23. What is the human side to agile? Focus on “individuals and interactions” Emphasis on (direct) “customer collaboration” Values “responding to changes” Requires environment to “support motivated individuals and trust them” Recommends “face-to-face conversation” Envisages “self-organising teams” Continuous improvement through self-reflection and adaptation
- 24. So, what is agile leadership? Lead with agility (especially in a “VUCA” world) Explore new ideas and pursue meaningful innovations Inspire with Vision, and align with Mission Shared decision-making and joint accountability Lifelong learning and developing people Operating with trust, openness and empowerment
- 25. Who’s an Agile Leader? Operates effectively amid uncertainty, complexity, and rapid change Is knowledgeable about Agile values, approaches, and practices Surfaces more creative solutions through increased self-awareness, a growth mindset, and engaging others Aligns and empowers teams toward delivering more customer value Personally integrates feedback and experiments, and adapts their ways Takes a collaborative continuous-improvement approach to organizational effectiveness Catalyzes change in others and facilitates organizational change https://www.scrumalliance.org/agile-leadership
- 26. Can anyone be an Agile Leader? Technically, yes! Executives, middle management, and other leaders with organizational influence Leaders who support, lead, or interact with Agile teams Any leader sponsoring, requesting, or involved with an Agile adoption within their organization https://www.scrumalliance.org/agile-leadership
- 27. Recap Agile represents more of mindset, principles, values and thinking...than methods, processes, vocabulary or tools! Agile adoption at team level requires a thorough understanding of agile values and principles However, scaling agility at organisation level requires agile leadership at multiple levels Agile leadership is all about enhanced agility - best achieved through nurturing agile mindsets, self-organising teams and a culture of trust, openness and continuous improvement
- 28. References Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) PRogram, https:// www.scrumalliance.org/agile-leadership https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/leadership-agile- environment http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2013/03/building-future- success-t-shaped-pi-shaped-and-comb-shaped-skills.html https://www.infoq.com/articles/standish-chaos-2015/ http://blog.crisp.se/2015/11/10/henrikkniberg/what-is-an-agile-leader https://www.quora.com/What-is-agile-leadership