It is a huge responsibility to lead a team. You are not only responsible for leading your team in fights against time and external factors but also for the outcome. Let’s talk about what it takes to be a successful leader in an agile setting.
The type of leadership necessary in an agile setting is considerably different. You must be flexible and willing to embrace changes to help your team flourish. So, here are five things you’ll need to become a versatile agile leader.
What does it take to lead in an Agile environment?
It’s not about scrum or kanban in agile leadership. It has nothing to do with processes or working methods. It all comes down to your mindset and how you interact with others around you. An agile leader is someone who has removed their ego from the equation when it comes to working with others – someone who facilitates and models effective cooperation.
The fundamental nature of agility is enabling everyone’s power and capability — to develop leaders at all levels and recognize the potential of every team member.
Other factors that are a must for every agile leader
- Being Curious
Agility necessitates adaptability, which necessitates the habit of continuously monitoring changing conditions and creating potential solutions. Your best tool is curiousity. If you’re always curious, you’ll most likely share your curiosity with your colleagues. Curiosity will enable you and your team to learn new things regularly. You’ll find yourself adapting to new ways of implementing projects and possibly new approaches to solve old (or new) challenges.
- Keep an open mind
You must keep your mind open when practicing agile. There will be many twists, turns, and disturbances in your journey. As long as you don’t get too attached to doing things a certain way, you’ll be fine. Agile project management is a dynamic, ever-changing system and the techniques you’ve been employing don’t guarantee things will remain the same after a few months. You should continuously seek ways to improve and streamline the process as a leader.
- The three rule
These three critical leadership pieces of advice will have a great impact on the organization that is adapting agility.
- Leaders must learn to form small, diverse, empowered, and linked agile teams.
- Leaders must allow and support agile teams to work in short cycles for them to produce more meaningful and well-timed outcomes.
- Leaders must keep agile teams focused on the client, whether external or internal, and on creating value for them by identifying and addressing their open desires.
- Use agile ideas and approaches
Agile leaders must have organizational-level expertise to establish the organization’s strategy and model using agile principles and practices. Introducing policies or practices that support agile ideas into your organization is one way to implement agile values. Using this method, the team will be able to create a result that they believe in. In this sense, agile management will support self-organizing teams.
- Finally, Agile Leaders must care for their teams.
Agile leaders understand that if their workers are involved in making a difference, the company will thrive. That is why these leaders do everything they can to create an environment favorable to achievement. They should promote work-life balance and set an example by not contacting people about work outside of business hours. Whether it’s an outdated policy, a lack of capacity, or an inpatient stakeholder, agile leaders remove any obstacles in the team’s path. They should be open and vulnerable so that their teams may trust them to be truthful in their work.
I hope this brief overview about agile leadership was helpful for you. Feel free to contact me on LinkedIn and to follow my blog for more agile impulses.
Best regards,
Marco Toscano
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