Agile Inc. is a community of bloggers reflecting the Agile-by-the-book to the practice in large-scale telecom SW development environment. Agile Inc hosts several co-authors with wide experience from different roles in an organization going through the Agile transformation. The views expressed here are ours and does not reflect our employer’s official position.
As we all know, the foundation of Agile are the values of the manifesto. However, some of the more practical thoughts introduced in some popular books and blogs are often seen as rules that you should not break. At Agile Inc we value practice and experience, inspect and adapt. Therefore we encourage trying out different approaches and learning from them. And blogging about them.
Hopefully you will enjoy the reading and also provide us feedback!
Extremely intriguing and interesting postings! Straight down to earth and with a strong feeling that everything you say is based on own experience! And few things are so empowering as experiencing and by that get the connection to what you do.
The leadership views you share are very valuable. I can only say I have also seen and experienced similar as you although in a bit different context. Innovation. However, I believe there are very strong connections between agile and innovation. In fact, they are dependent on each other in order to truly create value.
The challenge with the advanced leadership you post, from my view, is how to engage people into an environment where decisionmaking and roles are informal. For most people that type of an environment can be scary. The trick is again, to coach people to try this environment. And by that get them, hopefully, to desire more.
Another important aspect I have seen in the informal leadership environment, is the extremely vital importance of authenticity and transparency. Without these fundamental pilars the climate and environment might become twisted and hence the desired positive effect is lost..
You are setting a high standard for leaders, and I am fully supporting you!