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 | موضوع: 10 Things Agile Executives Need To Do Differently  السبت يوليو 21, 2012 5:24 pm | |
| By Kelly WatersAgile adoption is sometimes driven from the top by courageous executives boldly declaring “We’re going agile!”. They see a vision of a better, happier place, where development is better, faster, cheaper, and they want it. That’s understandable, of course. But some don’t realise the implications. When moving to agile methods, it’s not just teams that need to change. Executives need to change too.
Here are 10 things agile executives need to do differently:
1. Do Less - limit work in progress at portfolio level, eliminate waste, create focus, do less in parallel, keep things simple.
2. Explore & Adapt - rather than follow a plan.
3. Learn Fast - short feedback loops, tolerate mistakes, value learning and continuous improvement.
4. One Team, One Goal - avoid silos by setting up product oriented, co-located, multi-disciplined teams with shared purpose; squash politics.
5. Focus On Value - focus on value over cost, deliver value earlier/incrementally, concentrate on building the right product.
6. Empower Teams - inspire and engage, provide opportunity for intrinsic motivators: autonomy, mastery and purpose.
7. Accept Hard Truths - be open, accept difficult messages, support the team in resolving them; agile doesn’t solve your problems, it highlights them.
8. Think Big, Start Small - have the big vision, but deliver it in small bite-sized pieces.
9. Collaborate - play nicely, be supportive, give your people’s time, actively participate in projects.
10. Lead By Example - be agile yourself, use agile techniques, exhibit agile principles, adopt a servant leadership style.
If you want your teams to be truly agile, take a hard look at yourself and your executive colleagues. Are you agile too? Are you setting agile up for success? Are your behaviours creating an environment where agile can flourish? This is very important if you want your teams to succeed. If you ask for agile, but your own behaviour is inconsistent with agile principles, your teams won’t be able to change fully, even if they want to, and you’ll only get a fraction of the benefits you could otherwise achieve.
Are you an Agile Executive?[left] 
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