The practices of agile software development and DevSecOps (Development integrated with Security integrated with Operations) differ from traditional linear systems of working. The people doing this work who they are and what they expect and the way the work gets done in todays tech industry demand a leadership practice specific to this way of working. This book explores leadership practice in todays technology industry using the twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto as a framework. Each of the twelve principles includes a section of key takeaways to help the reader apply the principle in practice. It extends traditional notions of leadership, specifically Complexity Leadership Theory (CLT), to one that is post-heroic, acknowledging the processual, conjunctive and generative nature of leadership relationships.
Leader-follower dynamics are complexthey include power dynamics, conflict, ambiguity, and paradoxand technology organizations are complex. This book challenges the suitability of some aspects of complexity theory and offers practices that are more suitable for leading todays technology organizations.
Part I: The Role of the Leader.- 1. The Role of the Leader.-
2. A few
words about complexity.- 3. To the Manifesto!- 4. Using the Agile Manifesto
as a framework.- Part II: Leadership in Todays Technology Organizations.-
5. What is leadership?- Part III. Why Change the Way We Lead?- 6. Employee
expectations are changing.- 7. The way work gets done is changing.- Part IV:
The Twelve Principles of the Agile Manifesto.-
8. Agile Principle 1: Our
highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous
delivery of valuable software.".- 9. Agile Principle 2: Welcome changing
requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for
the customer's competitive advantage.".- 10. Agile Principle 3: Deliver
working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months,
with a preference to the shorter timescale.".- 11. Agile Principle 4:
Businesspeople and developers must work together daily throughout the
project.".-
12. Agile Principle 5: Build projects around motivated
individuals. Give them the environment and support they need and trust them
to get the job done.".- 13. Agile Principle 6: The most efficient and
effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is
face-to-face conversation.".- 14. Agile Principle 7: Working software is the
primary measure of progress..- 15. Agile Principle 8: Agile processes
promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should
be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely..- 16. Agile Principle 9:
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances
agility..- 17. Agile Principle 10: Simplicity--the art of maximizing the
amount of work not done--is essential..-
18. Agile Principle 11: The best
architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing
teams..- 19. Agile Principle 12: At regular intervals, theteam reflects on
how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior
accordingly.
Kevin R. Lowell is Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer and Head of Communications at UScellular Senior Vice President of Information Technology and an Officer for US Cellular, Illinois, USA. He formally served as Senior Vice President of Information Technology. He has served as a distinguished leader for more than 25 years in the high-tech telecommunications industry. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Development and Change from Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, certificates in computer science and artificial intelligence, management analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning from MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, USA and a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Certification in Cybersecurity Oversight from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
He is a four-time winner of UScellulars Dynamic Leader Award; five-time Finalist of the ChicagoCIO CIO of the Year Award; and winner of the AITP/SIM Chicago CIO Innovator of the Year Award.
His other books include a how-to guide for making changes in your personal life, and a love story.
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