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The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations
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The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations

by Ron Eringa, Kurt Bittner, Laurens Bonnema
June 2022
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 57m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations

2. Forming Teams and Discovering Purpose

Empowered cross-functional teams are the agile organization’s engines for creating customer value. Agile leaders play a critical role in creating the right conditions for these teams to take ownership. By enabling teams to form themselves, leaders set the tone and expectations for teams’ self-management and accountability.

Unfortunately, many traditional leaders send the wrong message from the start. They determine what the organization is going to deliver (their product or service), then decide the process by which the organization is going to deliver the product, and finally form teams to follow the predefined process to deliver the predefined product. The result is disengaged teams who passively follow ...

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ISBN: 9780137591558