The 7 Essential Attributes of Agile Leadership
Companies who want agility need to create agile leaders first
Agile terminology is becoming part of the lexicon in many levels of organizations nowadays. There has been an introduction of terms like minimum viable products, iterations and retrospectives into business meetings.
Teams are being re-organized to be multi-disciplinary, rather than segregated by work function. Positions like Scrum Masters and Product Owners now exist. But it is not the functional changes that matter, it is the language that changes how people think and behaves that is truly important.
This is the principle behind agile in everything, and why agility is essential for businesses to remain viable in an uncertain world. Key to achieving this is the realisation that to be successful, you need agile leadership in place.
Agile — the beginning
Agile was indeed started as a way of changing the way we think about software delivery. Rather than planning and documenting all the methods and structures used to produce the entire system, small parts of the capability are released…
