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.
Coronavirus and The Corner Shop – A Portrait of Agility?
If ever one wanted the ultimate portrait of a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex, and a…
Exploring and Exploiting – Striking the Right Balance
In 1913, Henry Ford implemented one of the greatest innovations ever seen in manufacturing: the movi…
Agile Bootcamp #4 – Using Story Mapping to Teach Agile
Agile Bootcamp: User Story Mapping is a great technique to help teams explore their product scope an…
Agile Bootcamp #2 – Behind The Scenes at an Agile Bootcamp
The bootcamp is planned, the travel arrangements made and suitcases packed. Now, the hard work start…
The opportunity of IR35 for organisations and start-ups
The recent announcement from HMRC that IR35 and Off-Payroll Tax would come into effect on the 6th of…
Meteors, VUCA, and Business Agility
Meteors, VUCA, and Business Agility: Once upon a time, two-ton wombats lumbered across the Australia…
How Agile Centre works differently
Agile Centre Managing Partner John McFadyen walks us through 'How Agile Centre works differently' to…
How Agile Centre works differently
Agile Centre Managing Partner John McFadyen walks us through 'How Agile Centre works differently' to…
Don’t Blame People, Fix The System
If you've ever been responsible and accountable for a project yet have no control of the systems and…
The 6 Enablers of Business Agility
When I first started my journey as a Scrum Master, I devoured books on how Scrum worked. I learnt al…
Agile Project Management
To say the words ‘Agile Project Management’ in front of Agile purists falls somewhere in the spectru…
What is Project Management?
Project Management, as both a profession and specialised discipline, is relatively young. From the d…
Don’t look back in anger
Continuous improvement is a core agile principle. The retrospective is an important event in all agi…
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new height…
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
by Clayton Christensen The Innovator’s DilemmaWhen New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail …
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
by Simon Sinek Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discove…
Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age
by Roman Pichler StrategizeProduct Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age Compre…
Big Book of Virtual Teambuilding Games
Big Book of Virtual Teambuilding Games: by Mary Scannell, Michael Abrams & Mike Mulvihill About …
Wisdom of Teams
by Jon Katzenbach This book thoroughly explores the remarkable benefits of teams at all levels of th…
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown & James Macanufo This book includes more than 80 games to help you bre…
Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership
Leadership team coaching: by Peter Hawkins <!– –> This book brings together the la…
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by General Stanley McChrystal In this book, General Stanley McChrystal shows how any organization ca…
Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances
by J. Richard Hackman Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances This book offers a pra…
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
by Patrick M Lencioni This book covers five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams eve…
Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
by Sam Kaner Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making You’ve been asked to run a t…
How to Run a Great Workshop: The Complete Guide to Designing and Running Brilliant Workshops and Meetings
by Nikki Highmore Sims How to Run a Great Workshop The Complete Guide to Designing and Running Brill…
Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives
by Tom Roden & Ben Williams This book is for anyone who undertakes continuous improvement of any…
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
by Esther Derby & Diana Larsen In this book, Derby and Larsen show you the tools, tricks, and ti…
Agile Retrospective Kickstarter – Alexey Krivitsky
by Alexey Krivitsky Agile Retrospective Cheat Sheet lets you create numerous unique agendas for your…
Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders
by Jean Tabaka Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders Collaborati…
Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
by Taiichi Ohno Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production In this classic text, Taiich…
Actionable Agile Metrics For Predictability: An Introduction
by Daniel S Vacanti Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability represents the definitive guide to u…
Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility
by Alan Shalloway Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility In this book, three …
Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
by Craig Larman & Bas Vodde Rather than asking, “How can we do agile at scale in our big c…
The Human Side of Agile – How to Help Your Team Deliver
by Gil Broza About Gil Broza Gil Broza has been an Agile coach since 2004 and wrote The Agile Mind-S…
Ethics and morals
Anyone whose profession involves advising others needs to be concerned about ethics. In a more gener…
Metaphor, Simile and Analogies
Metaphor, Simile and Analogies: Communication in all its aspects is of vital importance to effective…
Body Language
As important as the spoken word is, body language may convey even more information than speech. As a…
The Trust Equation
Trust relationships are vital to the way we do business today. In fact, the level of trust present i…
Introducing Certified Agile Leader® 1 (CAL 1)
Throughout my years as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach and Scrum trainer, there has been a common and pe…
Enterprise Scrum as a Language of Options – Scrum Event
Last night I had the pleasure of meeting the folk at Scrum Event and delivering a talk on Enterprise…
Active Listening
Active listening is a communication technique that requires the listener to feed back what he or she…
Levels of Listening
For a coach, there can surely be few skills more important than listening. Hearing what your client …
The GROW Model Explained
The GROW model is a solid, time-tested coaching tool that can help coaches ensure efficient results …
What do Agile and Electricity have in Common?
It has been over 20 years since the writing of the Agile Manifesto. Much was, and still is, promised…
The Responsibility Process® in Action
Recently I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days with Christopher Avery renewing my practice of…
Scaling Scrum: Enterprise Scrum Compared with Other Leading Scaling Approaches
Scaling Scrum: Enterprise Scrum Compared with Other Leading Scaling Approaches from Simon Roberts
Enterprise Scrum as a Language of Choices
The purpose of Enterprise Scrum is to give organisations the ability to become more resilient i…
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