We teach managers to foster agility by encouraging their teams to self-organize, stop assigning work, and telling them how to do it. Since the Product Owner defines the what and the team defines the how, what’s left for managers to do? Managers need to become servant leaders. It’s a key success factor for agile transformations. However, most managers have no idea what servant leadership is or what these leaders do. David Grabel teaches the true meaning of servant leadership—transforming it from a buzzword to a guiding principle. Learn how, as a leader, you can accelerate your team’s agile journey. Working in groups, participants discuss the challenges faced by an agile manager. As part of your learning, create artwork using Legos, clay, and pictures to illustrate how a servant leader meets the challenges of today. David defines the new job description for today’s managers in tomorrow’s agile culture. Come and prepare to take your part in it.
David Grabel
Grabel Consulting Services, LLC
Currently bringing agile beyond engineering, David Grabel is a passionate enterprise agile coach. He has introduced Scrum, kanban, XP, and SAFe to organizations from single team startups to organizations with more than 500 teams. David helped develop a process to integrate lean UX design with Scrum delivery teams that was rolled out to fifteen lean UX teams supporting more than one-hundred delivery teams worldwide. A certified CSM, CSP, and SPC, he is studying at the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. David is president of Agile New England.
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