Summary
Being successful with agile requires leaders who learn, participate in, and experiment with agile so that they can lead with an agile mindset and react with agile instincts.
• Effective leadership is required to make agile stick. It is critical that leaders understand agile well enough to help their teams move forward. Otherwise, they inadvertently risk sabotaging their team’s efforts to transform because their traditional behavior patterns and responses will get in the way.
• Successful agile adoption requires that leaders transform their behavior to allow teams to hold themselves accountable. Excellent technical leadership ensures teams have the skills and the appropriate tools to succeed.
• Adopting agile slowly makes it hard for ...
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