October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
7h 58m
English
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 ...