The Agile Leadership Framework
- Finding your leadership style through the prism of established leadership models
- Evaluating prevalent leadership models
- The Agile Leadership Model
- Building your analytical and behavioral skill sets
- Defining the behaviors and values of the Agile leader
Adding Business Value to the Organizational Mission
- Appreciating diverse organizational cultures
- Analyzing the characteristics of hierarchal and adaptive structures
- The myth of the broken organization
- Distinguishing complicated, complex and chaotic systems
- Agile and the Fifth Discipline
- Identifying business value
- Defining your sphere of influence
- Developing organizational mission statements
- Quantifying strategic plans using metrics
- Tangible and intangible business values
Embracing Uncertainty to Increase Business Value
- Recognizing root causes
- Accounting for the planning fallacy
- Determining the effects of complexity on your organization
- The danger of extrapolating the past
- The Innovator's Dilemma
- Exploiting uncertainty
- Applying the Cynefin Framework
- Identifying disruptive technologies
The Agile Leader's Toolkit
- Applying development methodologies
- The domain of traditional methodologies
- The domain of agile methodologies
- Agile Project Management (PMI)
- Scrum development methodology
- Dynamic System Development Method
- Managing risk
- Traditional risk management
- Agile risk management
- Timeboxing to counter scope creep
- The premortem versus the postmortem
- Addressing the technology landscape
Emotional Intelligence for the Agile Leader
- Cultivating your emotional intelligence
- The Emotional Intelligence Framework
- Identifying resistance to change in your organization
- Applying active listening techniques
- Avoiding group think
- Sharpening your influencing skills
- The importance of a leader's vision
- Finding the balance between logic and emotion in fostering change
- Appreciating the importance of reciprocity
- Building an Agile coalition network
Creating an Agile Environment
- Empowering teams and fostering their success
- Identifying the structural empowerment required for the Agile team
- Implementing the psychological empowerment required for the Agile team
- Bringing leadership to the Scrum meeting
- The reality of the 10x developer
- Problem solving
- Measuring the performance of Agile teams
- The importance of strategic thinking in problem solving
- The application of brainstorming to problem solving
- Making decisions in a complex world
- Making the decision right while making the right decision
- Ensuring the "waterfall left hand" knows what the "Agile right hand" is doing
Implementing Your Agile Leadership Action Plan
- Recognizing the importance of action planning
- Creating your action plan
