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The Professional Agile Leader
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The Professional Agile Leader

The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations (The Professional Scrum Series)

Ron Eringa, Kurt Bittner and Laurens Bonnema
Addison-Wesley, 2022

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Background
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

Companies need agility to manage today’s latest challenges. In this entry from the Professional Scrum Series by Scrum.org, experienced agility authors and consultants Ron Eringa, Kurt Bittner and Laurens Bonnema provide business leaders with strategies and an eight-step game plan for introducing agility and developing agile teams. Their informative manual, which incorporates an extended, illustrative, fictional case history, will help business leaders avoid common missteps that can interfere with an effective transition to agile management.  

Take-Aways

  • Traditional companies now need agile leaders, teams and cultures.
  • The flawed idea that employees aren’t intrinsically trying to excel leads to demotivating micromanagement.
  • “Catalytic” leaders foster teams that can make proactive decisions based on goals and values.

About the Authors

Consultant Ron Eringa, an expert in leading IT companies in using agile and Scrum, founded the Agile Leadership School and co-founded Evolutionary Leadership. Kurt Bittner is also the co-author or editor of Mastering Professional Scrum, The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide, The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, The Professional Scrum Team, and other books. Frequent conference speaker and consultant Laurens Bonnema, a Professional Scrum Trainer among other titles, is the co-author of Inspirerend projectmanagement met Agile (in Dutch).

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