To be a nimble, adaptable, and “agile” organization facing new challenges and complexities, traditionally accepted leadership practices from the past must be radically changed. This will require more than just obtaining leadership “buy-in” to start using Agile practices. Leaders will need to evolve along with the people participating on the front lines of change. They will need to model the same value-based behavior and activities we will be asking of our Agile teams. During this session, we will walk through the journey leaders take during an Agile transformation and also introduce an Agile Leadership Engagement Model. This model will provide a high-level view of possible behaviors, work products and relationships between senior leadership, mid-level leaders and your Agile teams. What the model represents is a simplistic starting point. A starting point for you or your guiding change coalition to begin including your leadership team into the transformation journey and to start having the challenging conversations your organization has previously avoided.

1. Leadership in an Agile World
Len Lagestee
@lagestee

2. In any society, if management is of the
wrong kind for its time, most of the people are
miserable most of the time.
In our time, we suffer from management
that is wrong
for its time.
Steve Denning
@stevedenning
The Meaning of Management – Forbes Blog
September 16, 2013
We are struggling against systems not aligned
with Agile values.

3. The Triggers for Change

4. The Barriers to Change
VersionOne State of Agile Survey, 2012

5. …but something is happening.

6. Today, many things indicate that we are going
through a transitional period, when it seems
that something is on
the way out and
something else is painfully being born.
It is as if something were
crumbling, decaying and
exhausting itself, while
something else, still indistinct, were
arising from the rubble.

7. A Leadership Journey
“I’m skeptical”
“I’ll just observe”
“I’m committed”
“I’ll be an encouragement”

8. Agile Leadership Engagement Model

9. Assess
where you
are today.

10. Become a

11. Startsmall.

12. Bring in
outside help
if you need
it.

13. Decide what your
leadership legacy will

14. Len Lagestee
@lagestee
www.illustratedagile.com