Leaders at All Levels ScrumDay TwinCities

Leaders at All Levels

Esther Derby designing environments for agile success +1 612.239.1214 [email protected] www.estherderby.com twitter: @estherderby (c) 2015 esther derby

“Leadership is simply causing other people to do what the leaders want.”

“Leadership is the ability to inspire motivation in others to move toward a desirable vision.”

“Leadership is the process of encouraging certain behaviors in others via force of personality, persuasion and eloquent communication.”

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TOP (“Leaders”)Set StrategicObjectives

MIDDLE {“Leaders”)Direct and Coordinate

Activities

BOTTOMPerform Activities as

Directed

In a typical hierarchy….




Contextual Knowledge

Front-line Knowledge




Separation of Head and Hands




“The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team.”

“Development Teams are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work”

“No one (not even the Scrum Master) tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality.”

From the ScrumGuide. www.scrum.org



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“Leadership is the ability to enhance the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creativelyto solving the problem(s).”

Gerald M. Weinberg




Contextual Knowledge

Front-line Knowledge

Expand the Diamond

Expand Creative Problem Solving




Clarity.Conditions.Constraints.




Clarity:People know what to work on.

They know how their work fits into the big picture.




“IT security has a solid enterprise solution for identity management, including standardized access controls, consistent processes, and centralized security of accounts.

[Our company] has a streamlined, simplified process for on-boarding all new employees.”




“IT security has a solid enterprise solution for identity management, including standardized access controls, consistent processes, and centralized security of accounts.

[Our company] has a streamlined, simplified process for on-boarding all new employees.”

WTH?




“All new employees have work stations and logins that are ready to go on their first day of work.”




Conditions:People have the means to do the work.

Organizational structures and policies must support the work.




60 - 30 - 10




Constraints:People know what should always be done

….and what should never be done.People can articulate their bounded autonomy.




Simple Rules or Heuristics

• Teach & learn in every interaction

• Think and act for the good of the whole

• Search for the true and useful.

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• Team over individual, department over team, company over department.




Clarity.Conditions.Constraints.




Creating the conditions where a team can effectively manage itself is a powerful act of leadership.




"The original purpose of a hierarchy is always to help its

originating subsystems do their jobs better.”

Donella H. Meadows




Leaders at all levels:better and faster decision making

greater flexibilityincreased engagement

vastly reduced need for “supervision”




Learn to live with...

• complexity and mess

• redundancy

• slack

• perception of loss of control




It’s not simple.

It’s not easy.

There is no one right way.

There is no prescriptive plan.

You won’t get there in one giant leap.




It is possible.

You will get there by experimenting, having conversations, learning.

You will create a more flexible organization.

You will increase the speed and ease of communication.

You will improve the pace and appropriateness of decisions.

You will unleash potential.



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