In this presentation I describe what the role of a manager is in an agile organization. I give a checklist of 12 topics that managers should concern themselves with.
Note: About 90% of this presentation consists of slides from an earlier presentation (So Now You're an Agilist, What's Next?) But this one is more focused on management.
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10. photo by Balaji Dutt
motivating people is NOT the same
as NOT demotivating people
11. 1. Do you know what is expected of you at work?
2. Do you have the materials you need to do your work right?
3. Do you get the opportunity to do what you do best every day?
4. Did someone recently give you recognition or praise for doing good work?
5. Do your colleagues seem to care about you as a person?
6. Are you encouraged to work on your (self-)development?
7. Do people make your opinion count?
8. Do you feel that your job is important?
9. Are your colleagues committed to doing quality work?
10.Do you (or would you like to) consider some colleagues as friends?
11.Does someone care about the progress of your work?
12.Are you given the opportunity (time/resources) to learn and grow?
(from: First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham)
12 Questions for Team Members
14. “For example, an ant colony, the brain, the
immune system, a Scrum team, and
New York City, are self-organizing systems.”
- Ken Schwaber
Agile Software Development with Scrum
16. photo by striatic
agile managers are invisible
they act as a mirror
“How did you try to solve the problem?”
17. photo by Amir K.
make yourself not needed
(when you succeed you will be priceless)
The only way to make
yourself indispensable
is to make yourself
dispensable.
(John C. Maxwell)
32. photo by anna pearson
other people’s behavior must be
predictable
33. The discipline stack...
1. Self (self-discipline)
2. Coach (teaching from master)
3. Peers (warnings from equals)
4. Signals (steering by infrastructure)
5. Supervisor (a guy walking around)
6. Manager (me, cleaning up the s**t)
The higher in this hierarchy discipline
is achieved, the better.
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all authors of texts and images, and to recognize any copyrights, if
you think that anything in this presentation should be changed,
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Editor's Notes
AGILISTS, PROJECT MANAGERS The things that motivate people are not the same as the things that demotivate them. If you take away everything that demotivates a person, then that doesn’t mean that he will be motivated.