The Professional Agile Leader: Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations

Hone Your Agile Leadership Skills to Help Your Organization Transform and Thrive

Drawing on vast experience, Ron, Kurt, and Laurens tease out practical tips and patterns for good leadership [and show] how a leader can help shape the environment for agile teams to succeed. . . . The narrative style of the book makes it easy to read, and I am sure there will be many times that you see yourself in it.
--From the Foreword by Dave West, CEO and Product Owner, Scrum.org
To leverage the immense opportunities associated with accelerating change, organizations need teams capable of innovating, failing fast, learning the right lessons, and rapidly applying those lessons. This requires agile leaders with fundamentally different skillsets--leaders who can break through obsolete definitions of good management.

The Professional Agile Leader is a realistic, practical guide, written by three Scrum pioneers who demonstrate proven ways to foster responsive and adaptive team cultures. They structure powerful lessons around a case study based on decades of experience helping agile leaders achieve and sustain transformations. Their strategic deep dives reveal how to rediscover the customer, shift from output to impact, convert predictable existential crises into opportunities, grow leaders everywhere, and much more. Best of all, they never settle for high-level hand-waving--they show you how it's really done.

• Reignite once-successful organizations that have lost their way
• Form cross-functional teams and empower them with purpose
• Learn to let go, as your teams start taking more responsibility
• Overcome forces that want to reel you back into the old rules
• Realign the whole organization, since agile and traditional models can't coexist forever
• Achieve the most challenging goal of all: changing culture

Great agile leaders aren't born that way--they're regular people who care deeply about helping others achieve shared goals and have discovered a better way to lead. Whatever your role in the organization, this guide will help you master those skills and mindsets a whole lot faster.

「磨練你的敏捷領導技能，幫助組織轉型並蓬勃發展」

「借鑒豐富的經驗，Ron、Kurt和Laurens提供了實用的領導技巧和模式，展示了領導者如何幫助塑造敏捷團隊成功的環境……這本書的敘述風格使閱讀變得輕鬆，我相信你會在其中看到自己的影子。」
——Dave West（Scrum.org的CEO和產品負責人）的前言

為了利用與加速變革相關的巨大機遇，組織需要具備創新、快速失敗、學習正確教訓並迅速應用這些教訓的團隊。這需要具備根本不同技能組合的敏捷領導者，他們能夠突破過時的良好管理定義。

《專業敏捷領導者》是一本實際、實用的指南，由三位Scrum先驅撰寫，展示了培養具有響應和適應性團隊文化的經驗證明方法。他們以幾十年的經驗為基礎，結構化強大的教訓，圍繞一個以案例研究為基礎的故事，幫助敏捷領導者實現和維持轉型。他們的戰略深入探討揭示了如何重新發現客戶、從產出轉向影響、將可預測的生存危機轉化為機會、在各個層面培養領導者等等。最重要的是，他們從不滿足於高層次的揮手示意，而是向你展示了真正的做法。

• 重新點燃曾經成功的組織，但已迷失方向


• 組建跨職能團隊，並賦予他們目標


• 學會放手，讓團隊承擔更多責任


• 克服想要將你拉回舊規則的力量


• 重新調整整個組織，因為敏捷和傳統模式無法永遠共存


• 實現最具挑戰性的目標：改變文化

「優秀的敏捷領導者並非天生如此——他們是關心他人實現共同目標的普通人，並發現了更好的領導方式。無論你在組織中擔任什麼角色，本指南將幫助你更快地掌握這些技能和心態。」

Ron Eringa is a Leadership Developer. His mission is to create organizations where people love to work and where real customer value is created. In the last 20 years he has built expertise on how to lead IT organizations that use Agile and Scrum. After an initial education in electrical engineering and software engineering he ended up in different leadership roles. In these roles he discovered the leadership capabilities that are essential to create autonomous teams with a high level of maturity and creativity. He believes that autonomous teams are the fundament of a modern organization that thrives in this complex and ever-changing world.

Kurt Bittner has been delivering working products in short, feedback-driven cycles for nearly 40 years, and has helped many organizations do the same. He is particularly interested in helping people form strong, self-organizing, high-performance teams that deliver solutions that customers love, and helping organizations use empirical feedback to achieve customer outcome-focused goals. He is an author or editor of many books on agile product development, including Mastering Professional Scrum, The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide, The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, The Professional Scrum Team, and Professional Agile Leadership, as well as The Guide to Evidence-Based Management, and The Nexus Guide. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Laurens Bonnema is an Agile Trainer and Management Consultant and a mentor to leaders creating resilient organizations at any scale. He has a strong background in IT with experience in almost every role. As a Professional Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Certified Agile Master, Agile Master Assessor, IPMA Agile Assessor, and PRINCE2 Practitioner, Laurens strives to merge classic and agile management in the conviction that it is the future of professional management. As a Professional Scrum Trainer and SAFe Program Consultant, he helps to improve the profession of software delivery as well as marketing, human resources, and finance. Laurens brings his experience in enterprise IT since 1999 and on Scrum Teams since 2006 to his teaching, is a driving force in the agile community, and a sought-after speaker at conferences and events.

Ron Eringa是一位領導力開發者。他的使命是創建一個人們喜歡工作並創造真正客戶價值的組織。在過去的20年中，他建立了如何領導使用敏捷和Scrum的IT組織的專業知識。在接受電氣工程和軟件工程的初步教育後，他擔任了不同的領導職務。在這些角色中，他發現了創建具有高度成熟度和創造力的自治團隊所必需的領導能力。他相信自治團隊是在這個複雜且不斷變化的世界中蓬勃發展的現代組織的基礎。

Kurt Bittner在近40年的時間裡以短期、反饋驅動的方式交付可用產品，並幫助許多組織做到同樣。他尤其關注幫助人們建立強大、自組織、高效的團隊，提供客戶喜愛的解決方案，並幫助組織使用經驗主義反饋來實現以客戶為導向的目標。他是敏捷產品開發的作者或編輯，包括《精通專業Scrum》、《殭屍Scrum生存指南》、《Nexus框架擴展Scrum》、《專業Scrum團隊》和《專業敏捷領導力》，以及《循證管理指南》和《Nexus指南》。他居住在科羅拉多州的博爾德。

Laurens Bonnema是一位敏捷培訓師和管理顧問，也是幫助領導者在任何規模上創建有彈性的組織的導師。他在IT領域擁有豐富的背景，幾乎擔任過每個角色。作為一名專業Scrum Master、認證Scrum Master、認證Scrum產品負責人、認證敏捷大師、敏捷大師評估師、IPMA敏捷評估師和PRINCE2從業者，Laurens致力於將經典管理和敏捷管理融合在一起，相信這是專業管理的未來。作為一名專業Scrum培訓師和SAFe項目顧問，他幫助改進軟件交付以及市場營銷、人力資源和財務等領域的專業。Laurens將他自1999年以來在企業IT方面的經驗和自2006年以來在Scrum團隊中的經驗帶到教學中，是敏捷社區的推動力量，也是會議和活動中受歡迎的演講嘉賓。