Welcome to our Agile Leadership Articles library, your go-to resource for insights and strategies to thrive as an Agile leader. This page is filled with curated articles designed to support leaders at all levels who are guiding their teams and organisations through Agile transformations. Whether you’re a new leader in an Agile environment or an experienced executive navigating complex organisational change, our articles provide valuable guidance on fostering agility, adaptability, and resilience.
As an Agile leader, you play a crucial role in shaping culture, inspiring innovation, and enabling teams to deliver value in a rapidly changing environment. Leadership in an Agile context requires a shift in mindset—moving away from traditional command-and-control approaches toward collaborative, empowering, and servant leadership styles. Our articles cover a range of topics that are essential for Agile leaders, from effective decision-making and building high-performing teams to driving organisational change and aligning strategy with Agile practices.
Whether you seek to better support your teams, align Agile principles with business goals, or transform how your organisation operates, our Agile Leader Articles page is here to help. Explore our articles and gain the knowledge and inspiration to lead your organisation toward greater agility and long-term success.
Emotionally Intelligent Feedback: Improving Performance in Scrum Teams
Sprint after Sprint, Scrum teams around the globe strive to continuously enhance their products, pro…
The Agile Mindset: How to Know If Your Business Is Ready for a CTO
As your business scales, deciding when to bring on a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) can be a complex…
Agile Top Tip – How to set personal goals that align with organisational goals
Agile Top Tip – How to set personal goals that align with organisational goals The start of th…
Agile Top Tip – How to make goals specific
Agile Top Tip – How to make goals specific How do you make goals specific? In this video, John…
Agile Top Tip – How to make sure goals are realistic
Agile Top Tip – How to make sure goals are realistic It can be easy to be over-optimistic when…
Agile Top Tip – How to manage (and set) goals in a volatile world
Agile Top Tip – How to manage (and set) goals in a volatile world Goals can be great to give u…
Agile Top Tip – What do you do when a goal becomes obsolete?
What do you do when a goal becomes obsolete? The nature of today’s business climate means that…
The Definitive Guide to Scrum Training
Scrum training is essential for teams looking to improve agility, collaboration, and efficiency. The…
On-demand Agile Leadership & Business Agility training
On-demand Agile Leadership & Business Agility training Agile leaders thrive in times of volatili…
The 6 Enablers of Business Agility
by Karim Harbott The 6 Enablers of Business Agility written by Agile Centre partner Karim Harbo…
How Agility has Moved Outside the IT Industry and is Shaping Top Companies Around the World
For many, the mention of the word agile conjures up images of software engineers, sticky notes, and …
6 Proven Ways to Make your Organization More Agile
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries organizations saw great leaps forwards in t…
The 6 Enablers of Business Agility – Creating the Organizational Operating system for Success
We live in a world that is more interconnected, more volatile, and more unpredictable than at a…
Meetup: ‘Co creating Great Employee Experience’ with Natal Dank
Online event, co creating Great Employee Experience Meetup with Natal Dank, who heads up learning, c…
Meetup: ‘The 6 Enablers of Business Agility’ with Karim Harbott
Online event 6 Enablers of Business Agility Meetup with Karim Harbott – Agile Centre partner a…
Meetup: ‘Business Agility: Pivot or Perish’ with Richard Cheng
Online Business Agility: Pivot or Perish Meetup with Richard Cheng – Vice President of Trainin…
Why Coaching is the Number One Skill for Leaders in an Uncertain World
It is often said that everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to change themselves. The…
5 Levers for Changing Organisational Culture
Organisational culture is one of the most powerful, and misunderstood, concepts around. Leaders and …
On Agile and Mastery
I’m lucky enough to find my job professionally satisfying. That’s because I think the line of work I…
Meetup: ‘Testing Business Ideas’ with David Bland
Live, online Agile Leadership & Business Agility Meetup hosting David Bland – co-author of Testing B…
Meetup: ‘Coaching Leaders through Uncertainty’ with Tracy Sinclair
Live, online Agile Leadership & Business Agility Meetup event hosting Tracy Sinclair – Director …
Creating Alignment and Autonomy
We know from Dan Pink’s work that high levels of autonomy are a powerful contributor to motivation. …
Meetup: ‘Bringing Leadership Agility to Agile’ with Bill Joiner
Join us for our next live Online event, this time hosting Bill Joiner – author of Leadership Agility…
There Are Sabre-Toothed Tigers in Your Office
An ancient part of our brains that existed to keep us alive in a world of danger has evolved. But ra…
The SCARF Model – How it affects agile teams
In the previous article ‘There Are Sabre-Toothed Tigers In Your Office‘, we discussed ho…
Agile Coaching Capability
Agile Coaching Capability – I’m a bit of a rugby fan and often find myself wanting to run out …
Leading SAFe ® – Certified SAFe ® Agilist – Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise
During this two-day course, attendees gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise b…
Innovation versus Protectionism
The last time we suffered a global pandemic that brought the world to its knees was in 1918. A littl…
I’m in a Theory X Team, Get Me Out Of Here!
Theory X Team For 20 years, ITV’s “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here” has been a staple of the UK …
Leading SAFe – Certified SAFe Agilist
During this two-day course, attendees gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise b…
Where did you get that hat?
In my previous blog post, “Where are all the managers in Agile?”, I discussed why agile doesn’t need…
Where are all the managers in Agile?
The heart of agile is described in the few words of the Agile Manifesto and its accompanying princip…
Bring rigour to your thinking
“Belief is so often the death of reason” – Lord Varys, Master of Whisperers – Game of Thrones …
Why did we create Agile Centre?
Watch Jon Spruce, Karim Harbott and John McFadyen discuss the origins of creating Agile Centre: brin…
Intention Versus Strategy
Part of our Covid Hack series of articles Small, cross-functional teams working closely together to …
The History of Hierarchies
For 95 percent of the 200,000 years modern humans have walked the earth, there was no such thing as …
Resilient versus Robust
Resilient versus Robust Part of our Covid Hack series of articles Many of the corporations we work w…
Agile Centre Webinar: “Pivoting in a pandemic” by Jon Spruce
Jon Spruce takes part in the Oliver Bernard Meet-up for Agile.London with a talk titled 'Pivoting i…
Hiring
Part of the Covid Hack series by John McFadyen In a recent Zoom session with Laura Howie, CEO of Ree…
Management versus Leadership
Management versus Leadership: During the pandemic, our revenue streams dried up – literally ov…
Our Client Experiences – Testimonials for Agile Centre
We have pulled together a film of our client's experiences working with Agile Centre and how our str…
The Coaching Imposter #2
When I last posted something, before life changed significantly for all of us, I was coming to terms…
Customers and Developers in the same room. WTF?
At the turn of the 20th Century, the father of modern Business Management – Frederick Winslow …
The Business Agility Canvas
True success in large-scale change initiatives is a rare thing, which is why we created the Business…
Assessing Scrum Masters with our Capability Model
In the past year, we’ve left the EU, stared down a legislative dismantling of the independent contra…
How do I get the senior leadership team to buy into Agile?
‘How do I get the senior leadership team to buy into Agile?’ is a question I’m often asked. It’s a g…
We didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”
‘We didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost.’– CEO of Nokia There’s a moment when the CEO of …
Building bridges amidst disruption
The Case for Business Agility As an Agile coach, consultant and trainer, I pretty much live in a wor…
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