Leadership & Teams

Producer: Pollyanna Pixton (producer) Accelinnova
Assistant: Alida Cheung (producer) Salesforce.com

By now we know that agile does not mean anarchy. It is simple yet disciplined. Leadership plays an important part in its success. We heard, learned, and experienced the characteristics and behavior required for an agile transition as well as continuous adaption and improvement. Agile leadership can be strong, powerful, and subtle. How is leadership similar or different for different roles such as ScrumMaster, executive, or functional manager or for different enterprise goals? How can heroic leaders transform themselves to post-heroic? How does leadership style affect the team? How do servant leaders take a back seat yet influence, facilitate, coach, and rally teams to success?

We need a new kind of leadership. Join the Leadership and Teams stage in a series of talks, workshops, tutorials, discussion panel, and experience reports on topics such as agile leadership, leadership tools, roles, communication and dialog, collaboration, project and portfolio management, scaling agile, risk management, building trust, and facilitation.

Reviewers

Steve Greene (reviewer) Salesforce.com
Eric Babinet (reviewer) salesforce.com
amy farrow (reviewer) salesforce.com
Chris Matts (reviewer) Emergent Behaviour
Niel Nickolaisen (reviewer) Headwaters, Inc.
Ami Hileman (reviewer) State Farm
Pete Behrens (reviewer) Trail Ridge Consulting

Sessions

TimeTitlePresentersTypeRoom
Monday 11:00-12:30What makes this Agile ours? A talk with previous Gordon Pask Award winners. Aaron Sanders, Jeff Patton (reviewer)PanelToronto
Monday 11:00-12:30Developing Agile Leaders and Teams: A Developmental & Transformational Path Gilles BrouilletteTalkColumbus GH
Monday 14:00-15:30Overcoming Agile ADHD Bruce Winegarden, David UllmanTutorialSan Francisco
Monday 14:00-15:30What is an Agile Project Manager anyway? Jesse Fewell, Pat ReedClinicRegency A
Monday 16:00-17:30Improving the Quality of Your Dialogues Eric Babinet (reviewer)WorkshopRegency A
Monday 16:00-17:30It Takes Two to Tango; Four to Square Dance Barry Rogers, Ken HowardTalkSan Francisco
Tuesday 11:00-12:30The Beer Game with Agile Teams - MIT Game Theory in Agile Project Management Tom LooyTalkRegency A
Tuesday 11:00-12:30Risk and Risk Management – Theory and Practice Chris Matts (reviewer), Todd LittleTutorialSan Francisco
Tuesday 14:00-14:45Influence of Large-Scale Organization Structures on Leadership Behaviors Erik MooreExperience reportSan Francisco
Tuesday 14:00-15:30Facilitation Patterns and Antipatterns Steven "Doc" List (producer)WorkshopRegency A
Tuesday 14:45-15:30ScrumMasters Considered Harmful - Where Did It Go Wrong? Paul HodgettsTalkSan Francisco
Tuesday 16:00-17:30Agile Project Metrics Dave NicoletteTalkSan Francisco
Tuesday 16:00-17:30How to Develop Your Leadership Power Daily: An Agile Approach to Growth Christopher Avery (reviewer)TutorialRegency A
Wednesday 09:00-10:30Stepping Up and Stepping Back: The Leadership Tipping Point Pollyanna Pixton (producer)WorkshopRegency A
Wednesday 11:00-11:45Multi-team sprint planning - how to do all the teams together Henrik Kniberg (producer)TalkRegency A
Wednesday 09:00-12:30Agile Leadership: A Developmental and Integrative Approach Bud Phillips, Michael HammanTutorialSan Francisco
Wednesday 11:45-12:30Leading Agile in an Economic Downturn - "The IBM Transformation Story" Sue McKinneyTalkRegency A
Wednesday 14:00-14:45Hook, Line and Sinker - the role of line management in relation to Agile teams Philip AbernathyExperience reportSan Francisco
Wednesday 14:45-15:30Iterating a Team in Flux Sharlene McKinnonExperience reportSan Francisco
Wednesday 16:00-17:30The Invisible Project Manager Mack AdamsTutorialRegency A
Wednesday 16:00-16:45Leading an Agile Team in the Corporate World David EndicottTalkSan Francisco
Wednesday 16:45-17:30Agile Attitudes Necessary for Business Survival in Today’s Economy Shane Hastie (reviewer)TalkSan Francisco
Thursday 09:00-10:30Scaling Up by Scaling Down: A (re)Focus on Individual Skills Amr Elssamadisy (producer), Ashley JohnsonTalkRegency A
Thursday 09:00-12:30Increase Your Capacity and Finish Projects: Manage the Project Portfolio Johanna Rothman (producer)TutorialSan Francisco
Thursday 11:00-12:30Metrics in an Agile World Rob Myers, James ShoreTalkRegency A