Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’

The Value of Agile Leadership to the Enterprise

Posted by Christophe on December 4, 2007

InfoQ presents a one hour video from the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile2006, where a panel of business leaders spoke about their experiences

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Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development

Posted by Christophe on November 30, 2007

Mary presented a fantastic overview of leadership through time and how lean looks at the question.
While on one Scrum side, independent powerless process leaders (scrummaster) are key to the product development cycle, Mary describe the opposite lean approach where process leaders don’t exist but are rather embodied by strong functional manager.

Mary recently responded to a related post I made on the leandevelopment yahooo group pointing to Kaoru Ishikawa’s “What is Totally Quality Control? The Japanese Way” where he says:

The fundamental principle of successful management is to allow subordinates to make full use of their ability.
Top managers and middle managers must be bold enough to delegate as much authority as possible. That is the way to establish respect for humanity as your management philosophy.

A fascinating different view from the “traditional” scrum way.
Watch the video on infoQ. It will make you think…

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David Hussman on Helping Organizations Adopt Agile

Posted by Christophe on November 11, 2007

David Hussmann “Agile Geek at Large” spoke with InfoQ about his approach to coaching teams adopting Agile, including how to customize it for different kinds of organizations, and some common factors to retain, to achieve lasting success.
See the video here

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