Developing  

Agile  Leadership
Pete  Behrens,  CEC,  CST®
with  Lars  Bruns &  Philipp  Engstler
May  11th at  11:00  AM  EST
Twitter:  
#SAMW16  @scrumalliance and  @petebehrens
Pete  Behrens,  CEC,  CST®
• Leadership  Agility  Coach  with  Trail  Ridge
• Guided  organizational  agility  in  many  companies:

• Certified  Leadership  Agility  360  Coach

• Founder  of  the  Scrum  Alliance CEC  Program
• Scrum  Alliance   board  member
• Leading  development  of  the  new
Certified  Agile  Leadership  (CAL)  
Program  for  Scrum  Alliance
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 Global  Agile  Leadership  Awareness

April

September
Today!
June
April May

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 AHA!  Agile  Leadership  Awareness

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 Agile  Leadership  Perception

What
is it?

The World of The World of

Agile Leadership

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 Agile  Leadership  Reality
Agile Organizations Leaders need
need Leadership to be agile

The World of
Agile
Leadership

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 I  haven’t  always  been  agile…
“I have a
confession…”

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 Why  I  know  this…

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 I’m  not  alone…

70% “Climate surveys routinely

Leadership
Failure
R. Hogan & Kaiser, 2005
What we know about leadership.
Review of General Psychology
show that about 70% of
employees report the most
stressful aspect of their
jobs is the interaction with
their immediate boss.”

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My  story  as  Development  Mgr…

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My  story  as  Development  Mgr…

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 How  I  came  to  “know”…
Video to  play

JasonHeadley.com

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 My  real  AHA! motivator
Video  link  JasonHeadley.com
We all need someone
like Jana in our lives…

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 My  AHA!

Expert
Leader
Task-focused
Do the work
People = problems

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I  was  promoted  to  a  VP…

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I  was  promoted  to  a  VP…

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 My  way  to  be  agile…

Video to  play

weisbart.com

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 My  real  AHA! moment…
Video  link  weisbart.com

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 My  AHA!

Achiever
Expert Leader
Leader Results-focused
Direct the work
Task-focused
Do the work
People = Pawns
People = Problems

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 My  AHA!  Agile  Leadership  Journey

1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015

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 My  AHA! Talk  Journey

Leadership Leadership Agile

Perspective Evolution Leadership

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 For  2.5  Million  Years 13,000
Years

before people settled… 200

Years

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 For  2.5  Million  Years 13,000
Years

AHA! people were agile… 200

Years

‣ Small & nomadic

‣ Informal Task-based leadership
‣ Leaders emerged
‣ Low tolerance for dominance
‣ People were free to leave

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 For  2.5  Million  Years 13,000
Years

AHA! people were agile… 200

Years

“Self-organization is not a startling new feature of

the world.

It is what we do until we interfere with the

process and try to control one another.”

- Margaret Wheatley

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 The  Previous  13,000  Years
Then people settled… 200 200
YearsYears

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 The  Previous  13,000  Years
then people settled… 200
Years

‣ Large sedentary city-states

‣ Formal hierarchical leadership
‣ Leaders imposed from above
‣ Dependent on city - not free to leave
‣ Power, wealth & dominance surge

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 The  Previous  13,000  Years
assholes had a home… 200
Years

“As leaders gained more relative power,

relations are based more on leaders’ ability to
dominate and exploit rather than benefit followers.”

- Price & Vugt 2014

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 The  Last  200  Years…
rapid rise in complexity & change

200
Years

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 The  Last  200  Years…
AHA! organizations haven’t changed

‣ Large organizations
‣ Formal hierarchical leadership
‣ Leaders imposed from above
‣ Dependence on organization
‣ Power, wealth & dominance

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 Today!
AHA! it’s time for a change…
Preference Reality
Choice of Leader Imposed Leaders
Team Power Hierarchical Power
Autonomy Directive
Mobility Rigidity

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 My  AHA!  Talk  Journey

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 Agile  Isn’t  Sticking  or  Scaling…
PROCESS

STRUCTURE

CULTURE

Super-sizing agile
processes fails to
penetrate and stick

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 Scaling  Agile  Challenges
Company
culture
Organizational
Management resistance to at odds with
concern about change agile values
loss of control
38% 42% 46%

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 Agile  Leadership  is  the  key
PROCESS

STRUCTURE

CULTURE

Leaders must
connect agile values
within the culture

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 AHA!  Agile  Leadership  Journey

Catalyst
Leader
Achiever
Leader Growth-focused
Expert Guide people/change
Leader Results-focused Share Leadership
Direct the work Creative & Adaptive
Task-focused Drive and measure
Do the work
Based on Leadership Agility by Bill Joiner & Stephen Josephs

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 Expanding  a  Leader’s  AHA!
Less  about  skill  acquisition,  more  about  self-­awareness  and  maturity

Based on Leadership Agility by Bill Joiner & Stephen Josephs

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 Refocusing  Agile  Leaders

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 Over-­Focus  on  Organization

Over-focus on
Organizational
Agility

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 Need  Agile  Leaders!
Organizations
reflect
Leadership

Over focus on
Organizational
Agility

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 Need  Agile  Leaders!
ADAPTIVE ADAPTIVE
MIND! BODY!

"Unless leaders do their

own development work,
they are not likely to create
business transformation.
- Robert Anderson
in Mastering Leadership

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 An  Agile  Leader’s  AHA!

Researching Research!
The focus and tools of
research have changed
much in the past 100 years

How we research has not

Global
Lars Bruns Research

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 Researching  Himself

Paired  Leadership
Lars  leads  by  modeling  a  paired-­
leadership   approach  – sharing  
Global
responsibility   &  developing   others.
Research
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 Researching  People

M(e) Staffing
Researchers now  self-­organize  
on  research  projects  –
increasing  energy  &  learning Global
Research
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 Researching  Research

Flash  Works
Researchers  flash swarm  selected  
projects  across  disciplines   –
creativity  and  progress  soar. Global
Research
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 Need Agile  Leaders!

GROWTH MINDSET CATALYST HABITS

✴Awareness of self ✴Experiments on self
✴Reflects cognitively ✴Coaches for growth
✴Open to perspectives ✴Shares ownership

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 Over-­Focus  on  Actions

Over-focus on
Productivity and
other outputs

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 Need  Focus  on  Enablement

Results are Over-focus on

enabled thru Productivity and
culture other outputs

“You can’t build an adaptable organization

without adaptable people”
- Gary Hamel
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 An  Agile  Leader’s  AHA!

Guiding Agile Culture

With a pending integration,
Philipp sought to know and
save his company’s culture.
He ended up influencing the
acquiring company’s culture

Philipp Engstler

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 Discovering Their  Agile  Culture…

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 Sharing Their  Agile  Culture  …

Culture  V1.02
Urs Schäppi,   The version  number  indicates  
CEO  Swisscom that we  expect  to  inspect  &  
adapt  our  culture  and  behaviors

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 Spreading Their  Agile  Culture…

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 Spreading Their  Agile  Culture…

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 Focus  on  Enablement
GROWTH MINDSET
✴Imagines creatively
✴Connects emotionally
✴Seeks & uses feedback

AGILE VALUES
✴Creates a safe workplace
✴Guides organization change
✴Builds organization culture

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 AgileLeadershipJourney.com

Leadership  
Leadership   Journey
AHA! Compass
Workshop

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 AHA!  Agile  Leadership  Workshops
Upcoming Agile Leadership Workshops
Ø June 24 - 25 in Hyderabad, India
Ø June 30 - July 1 in Bangalore, India
Ø July 27-29 in Chicago, IL
Ø August 29-31 in Denver, CO
Ø September 15-16 in Zurich, Switzerland
Ø September 28-30 in New York, NY
Ø October 26-28 in Seattle, WA
Ø November 16-18 in Washington, DC
Ø Nov 30 – Dec 2 in Orlando, FL

Register at AgileLeadershipJourney.com/tour

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 Certified  Agile  Leadership  (CAL)  Program

AHA! Journey!

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 Certified  Agile  Leadership

Video to  play

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 Tying  it  all  together…  
All  Education  
Providers  are  
Certified pending  Scrum  
Agile Alliance  Approval
Leadership

More to
come…

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 CAL  Program  Teams

Program Discovery Program Design Team

Team 2015 2016
• Pete Behrens • Pete Behrens
• Steven Denning • Peter Green
• Angela Johnson • Angela Johnson
• Pollyanna Pixton • Assistance from Sanjiv
• Simon Roberts Augustine, Scott Dunn
and Brian Rabon

Scrum Alliance Support Team

• Manny Gonzalez
• Erika Jones
• Lisa Reeder

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Next  Webinar
Racing  in  Reverse:  The  Quantitative  Relationship  
between  Overtime,  Defects,  and  Project  Slippage
With  Mark  Layton,  CST®,  Founder  of  Platinum  Edge
Date:  May  25,  2016
Time:  11:00  a.m.  ET  (USA)

In  this  presentation,  Mark  C.  Layton,  CST®,  founder  

of  Platinum  Edge,  will   discuss  why  people  who  work  
overtime  produce  more  defects,  which  causes  more  
work  and  more  defects.  Attendees  will   also  learn  
how  to  break  the  cycle  of  turning  talent  into  cannon  
fodder.

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