Agile Leadership
What is agile leadership? Is it leading in a manner that aligns with agile principles? Is it leading agile teams that are implementing agile practices? Actually, it’s both—and a lot more. Scott’s experiences and mine have both shown that, for an agile transformation to be successful, the leaders must understand the agile principles, be willing to put them into practice in their organizations, be supportive of their teams, and be willing to make changes in their own behavior. This is where it all starts.
Leadership, for the purposes of this chapter, includes management as well as technical leaders who do not have management roles. Technical leaders are often the product domain experts and experienced practitioners that other team ...
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