The surprising sciencebehind agile leadership
Why we do what we doJonathan Rasmusson

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What we’re going totalk about• Why agile leadership works• What’s changed in the last 40 years• What the next 40 are looking like

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A story

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How would this map to‘work’ today?
• Why don’t we compare team velocities?
• What can’t all software project plans becreated from a single baseline?

• Why are our estimates so wrong!!!

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So how does this map
to our world?

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What work in software
used to look like

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Command and control
Good for complianceTerrible for engagement

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What motivates us
today is totally different

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If it used to be ...

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now it’s something else.

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The nature of work haschanged.

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The future of work

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Sound familiar?

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Agile leadership model
Servant-leader
Self organizing
Flat
EmpoweredBehaviour isinduced---notcompelled.

Accountable
Self directed
Merit based

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Agile teams like to be autonomous.

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Mastery

Agile teams like to continuously improve.
Retrospectives
No broken windows
Testing day one
Blogging
Opensource

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We all want purpose.
Genchi genbutsu “go and see”
Agile inception deck
Why are we here?

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Why aren’t we all
working this way?

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While the work has changed ...

Organizations haven’t caught up yet.

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The ‘matrixed’ organization

Steep formal hierarchy
Chain of command
If/then short term
incentives“Don’t ship your org chart.” - Steven Sinofsky

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Where most work is headed

FlatNo formal hierarchy
Self organizing
Servant-leader“Stand back and get out of the way.”

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Can’t they co-exist?
Yes, but ...

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Agile today
Annual budgets
Titles / Roles$$$ incentives

Tension≠ TrustEmpowerment
No formal titles / roles
Crave autonomy

A clash of cultures
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!Tension!
• Companies like the automy and self
direction of agile as long as it ...

• Doesn’t conflict with their short term goals
Warning: this is deeper than quarterly bonuses.
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It’s a fundamentallydifferent belief system

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So what does this all meanfor you and me?

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Companies the rely on ...
• innovation• creativity• engagement
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We are already seeing thiswar for talent.

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The good news
If this resonates with you ...

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You’renotcrazy!!!
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Their are valid, scientificexplanations for why you like towork the way you do.

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If you are already into this ...
creative engaging work

you are headed in the right direction.

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The bad news is

It’s goingto takesome time
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100 years of history
working against us.
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My advice• Manage one’s self
• Be flexible• Do what works for you• If you aren’t getting what you need at work
• seek it else where
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No doubt 100 years from now
people will be laughing at us for working agile.
So don’t sweat it.

Go out there.
Kick butt.
And make something great.

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Learn more
blog: http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com
twitter: @jrasmusson
email: jr@agilewarrior.com
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