Study on Successful Agile Leadership

Successful Leadership in Agile Organizations Results of the 2011 Study www.p-a-m.org

What we wanted to find out:  What is required to successfully lead in an agile environment?  What are the key factors from the point of view of teams and their managers using agile methods?

Our approach:  58 face-to-face interviews with IT and business- experts from 5 different companies  7 clusters of qualitative and quantitative questions  Aggregation of the questions both per company and across companies  Interdisciplinary research team with backgrounds of agile and traditional project management, organizational development and line management

Success factors of agile leadership Quality of communica2on Organizational Change Management Trust Professional self-management Middle Management as Change Agents Context Management & Coaching Leadership as Teamsport

Quality of communication„Internal communication has become more honest, more specific, things aresaid more straightforward” – team member  Communication has improved in all 5 companies  This is perceived very similarly by all hierarchical levels  IT sees improvement in a better light than Impact of agile transition on communication business (1: very positiv 3: neutral: 5: very negativ)

Trust„To work agile is like climbing stairs without handrails“– Senior Management BusinessTrust in ...  the competence of the team  their ability to self-organize... requires leaders to...  adopt to change  learn  sincerely delegate responsibility  cope with uncertainty and democracy Also see www.p-a-m.org: „A recipe for trust building“

Middle Management as ChangeAgents„Why do we have line managers – so that someone signs our vacation forms?“– team member  Not middle management, but command & control leadership becomes obsolete  New core challenges: Recruiting, Role Clarification, Change How do you rate the potential that the entire company can benefit from the agile transition? Management,… (1: very positiv, 3: neutral, 5: very negativ)

Leadership as team sport  Team decisions instead of individual decisions  All key players are involved in major decisions: Business, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team and IT-Line-management Affected stakeholder become involved stakeholder Complex problems are viewed and solved from different perspectives

Authors of the study  Siegfried Kaltenecker (siegfried.kaltenecker@p-a-m.org)  Thomas Spielhofer (thomas.spielhofer@p-a-m.org)  Sabine Eybl  Johanna Schober  Stefan Jäger

Study on Successful Agile Leadership

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