This is the slide deck from my Agile New Zealand 2017 keynote. The Agile Community loves to talk about 'leadership' and how better 'leaders' can bring project success. And most of the popular Agile methods love to frame 'leadership' as the essential ingredient of success. Unfortunately, too many teams spend too much time discussing these topics without fully appreciating their deeper meanings. In this keynote you'll be able to explore what this means for you and your team - and you might find yourself ditching "leader" and "manager" in favor of "agilist".

1. Being Agile vs Agile Doing
Luke Hohmann
CEO – Conteneo, Inc.
@lukehohmann - #AgileNZConf
Copyright © 2017 by Luke Hohmann

8. Being – Doing
Mother – Father

9. Being – Doing
Leader – Manager

10. because – so that
Explains why Connects action to value

11. Being – Doing
Positive
because there are a lot of
people who think we’re
crazy to play games.
High Energy
because bootstrapping an
enterprise software takes a
lot of it!
Developing roadmaps
and requirements
so that my dev team can build
the best system possible.
Selling our solution
so that we have enough
revenue to provide great jobs
and fulfill our mission.

13. We build collaboration frameworks based
on cognitive psychology, social psychology
& game theory. We help you do this too!
https://startwithwhy.com/
We believe that collaborating teams
are the world’s best hope for solving
the problems we face.
We believe the right frameworks
dramatically improve collaboration
outcomes.

14. Values are concepts deemed
worthy or important.
They matter.

15. We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
http://agilemanifesto.org/

16. • Families first.
• Wellness is important.
• We have fun at work. It’s not a J-O-B; it is a J-O-Y).
• Hard work is a gift and we’re thankful we get to do this.
• We are proactive: We lead with a point of view.
• We make a positive contribution to our community.
We conveniently define community as “world”.
• We surround ourselves with people who challenge us to excel.
• We use stickers and you should too.

17. Being – Doing
Why – How – What
Values

18. Being – Doing
Agilist

19. Thanks for listening
luke.hohmann@conteneo.co
+1-408-529-0319