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Looking to Leadership for Agile Inspiration

Mike Griffiths

March 24, 2008





Since agile project management is closer to leadership best practice than traditional project management, it is useful to search leadership techniques for additional approaches that could also assist on agile projects.
 
James Kouzes and Barry Posner describe five practices and 10 Commitments of Leadership in their book, The Leadership Challenge:  

1. Model the Way

  • Find your voice by clarifying your personal values
  • Set an example by aligning actions with shared values
2. Inspire a Shared Vision
  • Envision the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities
  • Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations
3.



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