Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and catch up with Esther Derby, co-author of numerous agile books including Agile Retrospectives and Behind Closed Doors. We also ask the question whether Tony is cool or not….

• Agile Australia keynote “Leaders At All Levels“
• Leadership is the ability to adapt the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem
• Need to develop the people we are leading as well as the environment
• Need a bigger overlap of the knowledge in organisations so that we can make better decisions
• Systemic failure that we assume because you are good at something (like software development) you will be good at management / leadership – they are very different skills
• Three C’s – clarity (people know what to work on and how it fits into the big picture), conditions (the means to do the work and access to resources required) and constraints (guidelines to know to act and decide) – things you need to consider if you want to move a complex, adaptive system and build empowered teams
• Need to focus on the work that needs to be done not just on the little boxes or our job description
• Ask the question to leadership – what are you willing to change?
• Coaching Beyond the Team workshop with Don Grey
• Whilst smaller organisations can focus on the team, bigger organisations have to focus on the systemic level to make any visible difference
• People are interested in the allure of the Agile benefits and what to cherry pick in relation to practices, the same happened with TQM and Lean – need to ask what next shift will help you deliver value to your customers
• The millenials will be a big disruptor to management practices

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