1. Leadership skills & behaviours required to be a successful agile project manager
Erika Barden
22 September 2017

2. Overview Who I am Agreeing on agile
Traditional vs agile project management
Key skills and behaviours
Shared competencies
Re-interpretation
Agile specific leadership skills
Q&A

3. Who am I and why am I here?

4. So what is agile?
Practices based on the values and principles in the Agile Manifesto

5. Common attributes of agile
Emergence
Self organisation
Collaboration
Colocation
Prioritisation
Iteration

6. What agile isn’t Unplanned Unstructured Undocumented
Understood very well
Not just for software projects
What agile isn’t

7. Traditional vs agile leadership
Manager
Power through position
Command and control
Plans and process
Manager-led teams
Plans for change at the start
Agile
Servant leader
Trust & respect
Empowerment & collaboration
People
Self-organising teams
Embraces change & adapts throughout

8. Shared competencies require reinterpretation
Planning
Estimating
Financial control
Communication
Stakeholder management
Risk and issue management

9. Key agile skills and behaviours
Understand and embody agile
Educate
Relinquish command and control
Collaborate
Embrace and encourage change
Be flexible
Put the needs of others before yourself
Serve
Have EQ and great soft skills!
Soft skills

10. Takeaway
Agile is an attitude
as much as an approach

11. Dessert
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
-Charles Darwin
“It's not about trying to find something to help you be a more effective leader. It's about trying to be a better person. The other will follow.”
-James A. Autry in The Servant Leader

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