Leadership

Supports Pillars:

Collaboration

Dependencies:

Agile Communication Channels, Working with Domain Experts, Collective Ownership

Continuous Improvement (retrospectives), Disciplined professionalism, Recognizing business value, Agile metrics, Stand Up Meetings.

Definition:

On an agile team, individuals are constantly influencing each other toward a common objective.

Resources:

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Steps to Mastery:

    • Student knows how to participate in a daily stand up/scrum meeting. Student demonstrates an understanding of leadership versus management.

    • Student knows how to ask for help.

    • Student knows how to lead and follow, thereby promoting a self-organizing team.

    • Student exploits osmotic communication, and reaches out to other team members regularly (several times a day), asking either for help or advising them of changes that impact their work.

    • Student knows how to encourage leadership in a team environment.

    • Student is fully connected and interdependent upon other team members

    • Student can coach a team toward self-organization.