presentation at the Scrum Gathering in Cape Town, sept 2011, focusing on the concept of agile leadership as a team sport. this kind of sport relies on trustful, cross-functional as well as hierarchy-bridging collaboration as shown in a case study in the second part of the presentation.

1. The Big 5 Agile Leadership as a Team Sport By Sigi Kaltenecker www.p-a-m.org www.loop-beratung.at

2. Stampede 4 corners with coloured post-its, indicating „rhinos“ etc. 5th place in the middle for leopards aka stakeholders Build as much „cross-functional“ Big 5-groups as possible by picking one post-it of your group colour as a kind of business card Once you´ve built your group, create yourself a „homebase“ by putting chairs together Introduce yourself to your group – name, function, professional background, expectations of this workshop, and the like

3. Sigi Kaltenecker Organizational Consultant Managing Director LOOP IT & Financial Services Speaker Author Co-Editor PAM

5. Leadership as a team sport Traditional Leadership Agile Leadership “In team sports the performance is directly correlated with the degree to which members help each other.“ Ed Schein

7. Sponsors Soccer Club Fans Media Team Staff Staff Coach Management

8. Agile Team Sport – A Story IT Department of a media company 55 IT experts 7 Scrum teams (partly distributed) 7 team leads, 3 Head of´s, 1 CTO 5 primary customers Many symptoms of dysfunctionality Urgent need for a fresh start

9. Contracting with CTO „Constellation“ to clarify the goals & to identify the Most Valuable Players (MVP´s)

10. Building the Agile „Fresh Start“ Team Formal and informal leaders, cross-functional, hierarchy-bridging, rotating membership

11. Agile „Fresh Start“ Team

12. Kicking-off the fresh start ++/+/-/--/? Stakeholder map Mission

13. . “The true bottom line of every organization is whether and to what extent it is delighting clients and stakeholders.“ Stephen Denning, Radical Management

14. Interviewing stakeholders Distilling their needs, pains & wishes

15. Large Group Kick-off Missions, Report, How to improve

16. Implementation & Support Training, Coaching, Peer Consulting

17. Fresh Start Management Regular, team & hierarchy-bridging Retrospectives

18. Thank you! @sigikaltenecker http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=h-gnav-name-link-0 http://www.loop-beratung.at

19. Please discuss for the next 15 minutes the following question: “How can we use these ideas in our own agile environment?“ Feedback loop Define a delegate of your group who will be part of an open dialogue about your most important answers