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Follow the Leader: 6 Steps to a Leadership-First Strategy

Posted May 28, 2020 | Leadership |
Leadership First
A critical factor for the past failure of many Agile initiatives is that leaders are disengaged from their strategies. They’re not taking responsibility for the deep learning, mindset shift, personal role shift, and cultural shifts required of them in a transformation of this magnitude. The failure is not specifically about Agile. Indeed, any signi­ficant change initiative needs this sort of leadership engagement, where the leaders must go first in leading, or showing the way.
About The Author
Bob Galen
Bob Galen is an Agile methodologist, practitioner, and coach. In this role, he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift toward Scrum and other Agile methods. Mr. Galen is currently a Principal Agile Coach at Agile Moose. He regularly speaks at international conferences and for professional groups on a broad range of topics related to Agile software development. Mr. Galen is the author of Agile… Read More
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