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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
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Foreword

I recently was talking to an executive about their agile transition. He described a series of great successes and disappointing failures. As we talked about these situations, picking at the “why?”, the “what”, and the “how could we have done better?” I was struck by a single truth: The failures were never about the Scrum Team or Teams; the failures were always about the friction created by agile teams within an existing, industrial-minded organization. And many of these failures were ultimately about leadership and the missteps they made as they tried to navigate the disconnect between these two paradigms.

One story, in particular, stood out to me. The story was about a Sprint Review that did not go well. The Sprint Goal was poorly ...

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ISBN: 9780137591558