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1. Agile Leaders
Online Webinar
Presented By:
Mona Radwan

2.  It's an initiative for gathering people interested in Agile,
eXtreme Programming, Scrum, Coding, etc…
 It’s our 7th event
 Webinar is co-hosted with Agile Arena
 www.xpdays.org
 https://www.linkedin.com/company/xpdays
XP Days

3.  Agile Arena is an Agile Consulting and Training
company
 www.agilearena.net
 https://www.linkedin.com/company/10550036/
Agile Arena

4. ● Agile Coach & Authorized Trainer
● 15 years of experience in Software field
● Founded Agile Arena in 2016
● Coached many companies to adapt Agility
Mona Radwan
About Me

5. ABOUT YOURSELF
YOUR ROLE
YOUR EXPECTATIONS

6. ● Why Agile Teams need a different leadership style?
● How the Agile Leaders Look Like?
● What are the different hats for a Leader?
● What is their role in the Agile Transformation?
● What should leaders learn / unlearn to lead an Agile Team?
Webinar Objectives

7. Who’s the Leader we are talking
about Today?

8. Leaders are Key
Persons

9. Agile Teams

10. Why Agile teams need a
different leadership style ?

11. ROPES EXERCISE
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h9zEPhU2Zh8dRmORvrwdl3ZHbEiHgQZM?usp=sharing

12. Agile Software Fundamentals Presented By
Agile Software Fundamentals
Round 1
● The group has a manager
● The manager will give them
instructions to solve the node
Round 2
▪ The group will participate to
solve the node themselves
without a manager
For each round
● Measure the time of having the node resolved
GROUP OF FIVE, Each person grabs 2 parts of the rope
and switch hands till making a Node in the Rope
Then, TRY SOLVE THE NODE IN THE ROPE

13. Agile Software Fundamentals Presented By
Agile Principles
Build projects around motivated individuals.
Give them the environment and support they need,
and trust them to get the job done.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing teams.
Agile Software Fundamentals

16. How the Agile Leaders Look like?

17. ▪ Empower the team
▪ Change Agents
▪ Enable the healthy environment
▪ Mentoring the teams
▪ Lead the new initiatives
▪ Continuous Improvement
Agile Leader Duties

18. Different Hats of a Leader
Mentor
Decision Maker
Facilitator
Coach
Environment Creator

19. What are the main challenging facing the
Agile Coach while leading an Agile
transformation ?

20. ● The Leaders community is not formed or aligned
● Absence of the sponsors for the Agile transformation
● The key roles are not empowered
● The leaders are not care about sustaining the Agility
● Lack of awareness about the required skill set
● Wrong people playing the leader role
Challenges of the Agile Transformation

21. The Solution

22. ● Community of leaders is formed
● Periodic meeting with the community to
discuss the progress and challenges
● The key roles/leaders are responsible to
empower the team and mentor them
● The leaders and management to facilitate
the environment related issues
The Agile Transformation Success Keys

23. What should Leaders Learn/Unlearn ?

24. ● Some emotional intelligence skills, Like Self awareness and
group awareness
● Accepting Failures/Mistakes
● Listening Skills
● Coaching Skills
● Conflict Facilitation and Navigation
● Delegation Skills
Leaders Should Learn

25. ● Being a single source of Decisions
● Being a Bottleneck in any activity
● Acting with one hat all the time
● The Success is mine and faults due to others
● Ignorance of vision due to diving into details
Leaders Should UnLearn

26. Eliminate the Misconception and
Qualify the Leaders
What’s the
Solution?

27. Q & A