Impressions from the Scrum meeting in Karlsruhe
In this article you will find impressions from the Scrum event in Karlsruhe, were Thomas Spielhofer had the chance to hold a presentation on agile leadership and to get valuable feedback and input.
On December 7th, 2011, I was kindly invited to join the Scrum Meeting in Karlsruhe. The topic that day was “leadership in agile organisations”. A great opportunity for this platform to learn more about what Scrum practitioners, coaches and managers in Karlsruhe, a city with a strong agile tradition, expect from agile leadership. At the beginning of the event I was given room for a short presentation regarding the results of our study “successful agile leadership” (http://p-a-m.org/2011/06/exec-summary-of-the-study-on-successful-agile-leadership/). Furthermore, we went through the draft of the agile leadership model that Sigi Kaltenecker and I had developed. This presentation was followed by a vivid discussion by the group. Before the group diverted into smaller groups with informal (but no less vivid) talks, the facilitators gathered a round of structured feedback: each participant was asked 1.) what she/he would take home from this event and 2.) what could be improved in the agile leadership model.
What the participants take with them:
What the participants think we can change/improve:
What I take with me:
- The reverberation of a very warm hosting and an unobtrusive yet very effective event facilitation by Jürgen Hoffmann and Heiko Stapf. Thank you, guys!
- The impression of a very well established Scrum community: a group around 30 people having vivid and sometimes controversial talks, and yet being able to moderate themselves -only very few interventions by the facilitators were made. Talking about team building and talking about scrum masters/facilitators making themselves superfluous by enabling the team to lead a constructive dialogue by their own means -this was an impressive example for me to behold.
- A lot of attention and resonance regarding the topic “agile leadership”
- A list of specific feedback to our agile leadership model for us to chew on over the next months. Thanks to all the participants, this is very valuable for us to further improve the model
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