Learn Agile, Experience Agile, Develop Agile Instincts
As an agile leader you have special responsibilities. You need to protect your teams, encourage them to get better, delegate responsibility where appropriate, and enable teams to take responsibility for their outcomes. To understand why these responsibilities are important, and how to act on them, you need to learn agile. There is no way around it. Leaders play a role in agile adoption—leaders are not spectators. Read as much as you can. There are great books, lots of presentations and experience reports on the Internet, and lots of forums, blogs, and educational sites that you can reference.
Listen to the team while they’re at work. Standup meetings are a great place to understand how well ...
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