Great Big Agile: An OS for Agile Leaders

© Jeff Dalton 2019

Jeff DaltonGreat Big Agilehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4206-3_1

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Jeff Dalton¹ 

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Waterford, MI, USA

 

As the prolific and popular SPaMCAST podcaster Tom Cagley proclaimed during his keynote at the 2017 Agile Leadership Camp, “Values aren’t really what matters; behavior matters.” Cagley, who has interviewed more than five hundred technology leaders on his podcast series, hit the nail squarely on the head. Culture is usually derived from organizational values.

The behavior of team members, business stakeholders, partners, and leadership is all that matters, as it demonstrates real, as opposed to stated, culture. Too many companies say the words while demonstrating antipatterns that proliferate throughout the ...