Agile Leadership as a Service with Mina Boström Nakicenovic

We're are proud to welcome Mina Boström Nakicenovic, who has recently been voted at one of the top 100 women in agile and always provides exciting and inspiring talks, back to AWA this October!

Nowadays many companies are focused on improving their agile practices and processes. What they often lack is improving leadership skills at the management level.

Leadership can be thought of as a service that people in an organization either ”buy” or ”don’t buy”, according to the INSEAD’s professors of business strategy R. Mauborgne and C. Kim. Every leader has customers: bosses to whom the leader must deliver business performance and followers who need the leader’s guidance and support to grow. When people value your leadership practices, they buy your leadership and are inspired to act with commitment. Otherwise they disengage.

When leading software development, the challenge is not only to inspire and motivate people, but also to adjust the organizational design and the system architecture (Conway’s law) and also to create and drive a technical roadmap. Furthermore, leaders are responsible to align agile, autonomous teams to the company’s strategy and towards common company’s goals.

So, how to manage all mentioned things in the best possible way so that people from all levels, up and down, buy your leadership? What are the most important features and properties in such a leadership service?

ABOUT MINA:

Mina is a passionate IT leader with 20+ years of experience in software development. She worked as a developer, software architect, development manager, head of development. Now she is about to start a very exciting journey as a Chief Technology Officer at Paradox Interactive.
During her career Mina has been applying agile and lean principles on all domains she has been working with: software architecture, leadership, organizational structure, processes, business strategies, innovation management. Hence Mina has created unique perspectives on how software architecture, strategy and leadership intersect and how to leverage them for innovation and competitive advantage.
Mina has a genuine interest in software development, curiosity to learn new perspectives and need to share knowledge and ideas with the others. That’s why she became a regular conference speaker and an active contributor to European agile communities. Mina’s passion for agile software development has also spread within her family. She and her husband are often taking their three kids to conferences, where they are presenting together as an agile family.

AGENDA:
18:00 - 18:45: Arrivals, Welcome & Pizza
18:45 - 19:30: The talk
19:30 - 20:00: debrief, closing