Have you experienced a situation where the project owner is a product expert but lacks leadership skills to align the team or manage stakeholders properly? Or, perhaps, a situation where the otherwise excellent ScrumMaster is not experienced enough to guide the team to own timely delivery, yet is expected to do so by the stakeholders? In many cases, we expect an individual to fit into a predefined role, failing to acknowledge their particular strengths and weaknesses and leaving gaps in covering team responsibilities. By making the implicit explicit, the goal is to allow teams to fully...
Ahmed Sidky
Riot Games
Ahmed Sidky, also known as Dr. Agile, is the head of development management at Riot Games where he leads a team of sixty internal agile delivery leaders. Co-author of Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World, a seasoned speaker, and a well-known leader in the agile community, Ahmed serves as the president of the International Consortium for Agile, an international agile accreditation/certification body focused on deepening people’s agile competencies. Ahmed has led a number of Fortune 100 companies through large-scale agile transformations using his culture-driven transformation approach, focusing on changing and introducing organizational habits critical to sustaining business agility.