Agile Leadership for Middle Management

Facilitated by Danny F. Wuysang & Angga Pratama (Agile Coaches - BFI Finance Indonesia & Ekipa) at an online meetup by BATC, Agile BSD, and Agile Circles Indonesia.

In most Agile Transformation Initiatives, many agree that among others an important step is buy-in from top management. After which, many will start working on team-level improvements. But often, the role of middle management (e.g. Leads, Managers, Heads) is not that obvious. In this session, we start by going back to the whys of Agile Transformation. Making good use of collective intelligence, we will facilitate group discussions on improvement goals and plan. Finally, we propose actionable steps to aid leaders better support team growth.

Transcript

1. Agile Leadership for
   Middle Management
   Jakarta, May 6th 2020
   

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2. Angga Pratama
   Senior Agile Coach - Ekipa
   08121067583
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/angga-pratama-78919013/
   angga.pratama@ekipa.co
   

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3. Why transform?
   

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4. Photo by Matt Duncan on Unsplash
   Are we there yet?
   

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5. What is a high-performing
   team?
   

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6. Continual
   Improvement
   Transparency
   Rapid
   Experimentation
   Patterns of High-Performing Teams
   Based on an article by Edwin Dando
   Culture Fun
   Goal Leadership
   

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7. Where do middle managers fit
   in an agile organization ?
   

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8. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/the-five-trademarks-of-agile-organizations
   

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9. https://www.visual-paradigm.com/scrum/what-is-self-organizing-team-in-scrum/
   

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10. Strong Individual Contributor Directing the works of others
    Mid-level Manager
    Series of achievement and
    promotion
    

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11. CEO
    Berry Books
    CFO
    Vinny Viewer
    Sales Director
    Wendy Writer
    Command & Control
    Power Through Position
    Plan & Process
    Managing team
    Plans for change at
    the start
    The Manager
    

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12. Mindset Shifting
    

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13. How to aid the shift
    01 | Empowerment & Collaboration
    02 | Trust & Respect
    03 | Focus on People
    04 | Self Organizing Teams
    05 | Embrace Change & Adapt Through Out
    06 | Empty Your Calendars, Listen More
    

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16. Continuous Learning
    

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17. Continuous Learning
    ● Start with yourself
    ● Get inspired to inspire
    ● Think about how to enforce learning
    ● Work for the benefit of the team
    ● No boundaries in learning
    ● Group learning & sharing
    Photo by Mathias Jensen on Unsplash
    

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18. Activity
    

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19. Answer
    1. What is a high-performing team?
    2. How would a leader develop such a team?
    

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20. Q&A
    

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21. Key Takeaways Leaders: Your teams should already have
    goals. What would make their lives easier, in
    your respective field.
    Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile
    Coaches: Hold sessions such as our group
    activity. Find out what success means to
    your organization. Make a real plan.
    CEO, CTO, Directors: Initiate such a session.
    Team Members: Reflect on what you need
    from your leaders. What holds you back
    from being self-organizing, cross-functional,
    continuously improving.
    

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22. Thank you.
    

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