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Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”
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Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

by Leslie Ekas, Scott Will
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
7h 58m
English
IBM Press
Content preview from Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Chapter 10. Agile Leadership

Being successful with agile requires leaders who learn, participate in, and experiment with agile so that they lead with an agile mindset and react with agile instincts.

By Leslie Ekas

Unlike the rest of the book, this chapter on agile leadership is not about a specifically agile principle or practice. That being said, a successful transition to agile requires leadership—leadership that understands how agile is supposed to work, and supports, enables, and guides the organization as appropriate. My goal for this chapter is not to go through all the research that has been done on what makes a “good leader,” whether leaders are born with natural leadership talents, if those talents can be trained into a person, or any ...

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