Leadership & Teams

Producer: Johanna Rothman
Assistant: Mike Griffiths

Inside the Agile community, there is considerable discussion about whether or not people who practice agile methods need leaders. Outside the strictly Agile community, people still differentiate management and leadership. If we believe in self-organizing teams, do we need managers? If so, what do they do?

Leaders make the hard decisions - whether those leaders are called managers in the organization, or if they are part of teams.

This stage asks and answers some of these questions: Do we need leadership for agile practices? Why do we need leadership? What’s the role of the team in providing leadership? Can teams succeed without leaders—self-anointed or company-anointed?

Today’s leaders face many challenges where agile can assist. But how do they lead? How do they:

Start with agile in their company
Balance agile portfolios to execute business strategy
Support agile projects: what to do and what to expect

In this stage, you’ll hear from people who’ve led the adoption of agile in their organizations. Others will discuss how they took on leadership roles helping fellow team members follow agile practices. Some will discuss how they’ve led on an agile team, and what they had to do to succeed. You’ll learn numerous approaches to creating great teams and leaders.

Timeslot	Session	Speaker 1	Speaker 2	Room
Tuesday
10:45-12:15	The Myth and Magic of Self-Organizing Teams	Kevin Wagoner		Dominion North
	Practices of an Agile Team	Fumihiko Kinoshita
	Agile Project Experiences – The Story Of Three Little Pigs	Craig Smith	Paul King
10:45-12:15	Leadership Success Recipes for Agile in the 21st Century	Jean Tabaka	Chris Louvion	Dominion South
10:45-12:15	The Leadership Imperative: Creating a Culture of Trust	Pollyanna Pixton		Huron
14:00-15:30	"Un-assessments" using Agile Evaluation Framework - actions by the teams, for the teams	William Krebs	Per Kroll, & Edward Richard	Dominion North
14:00-15:30	Product management in an agile world	Steve Johnson		Dominion North
14:00-15:30	Hiring For An Agile Team: Detecting Candidates Who Will Fit With the Team	Johanna Rothman		Dominion South
14:00-17:30	Diana and Esther’s Excellent Retrospective Adventures	Diana Larsen	Esther Derby	Huron
16:00-17:30	XP: My Greatest Misses 2000-2008	J. B. Rainsberger		Dominion North
16:00-17:30	Building High-Performance Agile Teams	Paul Hodgetts		Dominion South
Wednesday
08:30-10:00	7 years of agile management	Rene Barto		Dominion North
	New Car Development in Toyota	Kenji Hiranabe
	Scaling Up - pushing Scrum out of its comfort zone	Richard Lyon	Marcus Evans
08:30-10:00	Functional roles, managers and individual growth in Agile contexts	Moderator: Rachel Weston	Panel: Esther Derby, Hubert Smith, Tamara Sulaiman, Samir Shah	Dominion South
08:30-12:00	Building Your Coaching Skills	Johanna Rothman		Huron
10:30-12:00	Dependency Management in a Large Agile Environment	Eric Babinet	Rajani Ramanathan	Dominion North
	Dependency Management in a Large Agile Environment	Eric Babinet	Rajani Ramanathan
	Product Manager; surviving the big bang approach	Rasmus Mencke		Dominion North
14:00-15:30	Overhauling a Failed Project Using Out of the Box Scrum	Matthew D Edwards		Dominion North
	Agile Project Leadership - my top 10 value driven principles	Lynne Ralston
	Cowboys and Indians: Impacts of Cultural Diversity on Agile Teams	Janice Aston	Lionel Laroche, & Gerard Meszaros
14:00-15:30	Metrics for Agility	Dan Rawsthorne		Dominion South
14:00-15:30	Leading Volunteers with Agility	Mike Cottmeyer		Huron
16:00-17:30	The Value of Collaborative Estimation; A Case Study	Mitch Lacey		Dominion North
16:00-17:30	A Framework for Agile Leadership	Todd Little	Pollyanna Pixton	Dominion South
16:00-17:30	How to Overcome Pertinent Conflicts	Christoph Steindl	Christian Federspiel	Huron
Thursday
08:30-10:00	Appraisals and Compensation: The Elephant in the Room	Mary Poppendieck		Dominion North
08:30-10:00	The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility	Michele Sliger	Stacia Broderick	Dominion South
08:30-10:00	What Makes Pairing Work?	George Dinwiddie		Huron
08:30-12:00	The Secrets of High-Performance Agile Implementations	Gil Broza		Conf H
10:30-12:00	Guerilla Agile: Stop Playing Schedule Games	Johanna Rothman		Dominion North
10:30-12:00	Oles 8 steps for Agile Mentors	Ole Jepsen		Dominion South
10:30-12:00	The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach	Lyssa Adkins		Huron
14:00-15:30	When Whole-Team Attacks: How can we ensure true whole-teams survive and thrive?	Angela Martin	Robert Biddle	Dominion North
	The social nature of agile teams	Elizabeth Whitworth
	Bootstrapping Scrum and XP under crisis - a story from the trenches	Henrik Kniberg	Reza Farhang
14:00-15:30	Seeking To Perceive More Than To Be Perceived	Emmanuel Gaillot	Bernard Notarianni	Dominion South
14:00-17:30	Agile Leadership: What Is It and How Do You Do It?	Pollyanna Pixton	Johanna Rothman	Huron
16:00-17:30	What Are They Doing? What A CIO Wants To Know From An Agile Development Team	Niel Nickolaisen		Dominion North
16:00-17:30	For Agile Leaders Only -- Exploring the "Hard Bits"	Bob Galen		Dominion South
Friday
08:30-10:00	Searching For and Developing Agile Leaders	David Spann		Dominion North
08:30-10:00	PMI and Agile – Oil and Water or Can They Co-exist?	Kelly Snavely	Tania Broome	Dominion South
08:30-10:00	Dancing with the Agile Goddess	Israel Gat		Conf. G

Review Team

Mike Griffiths - Leading Answers, Canada
Mitch Lacey - Ascentium, USA
Pollyanna Pixton - Evolutionary Systems, USA
Jeff Sutherland - Patientkeeper, USA

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