From leading with “Command-And-Control”...

...to leading with trust and “Rather ask for forgiveness than for permission!”

Agile Leadership is about influencing the teams to be at their best for every task assigned. It is about translating vision into reality.
Agile Leaders stand at the heart of the organization. They have the power to change the structure of organizational functioning. It focuses on the motivation, engagement, and productivity of teams. People buy into the agile leader before they buy into the vision.
A good agile leader fosters a culture of trust, and inclusion, harness technology, embrace the changes and reinforce. They manifest emotional intelligence. And help their teams with collaboration, support, and guidance.
In this talk,

• I show you my transformation from a command-and-control people manager towards an agile leader who created and is leading a team of Agile Engineering Coaches.
• I will explain how we established OKR's in the team to translate the RBI 6 Pillars vision (top-down) into OKR sets to enable self-organized people.
• I will give insights into what was necessary to form an successful coaching team with trust and the approach "Rather ask for forgiveness than for permission".
• I will explain how I am combining our job architecture with our agile learning guide approach to grow and improve every team member in agile engineering excellence.

Additionally, you will learn that being an agile leader is no rocket science but that it needs a lot of energy and the courage to fail fast and fail often.
Bio:
David Heitzinger is Head of Agile Engineering Support in Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) and drives together with his Agile Engineering Coaches the agile (engineering) transformation in RBI towards an adaptive organization. Agile Engineering Methodology is among the key success factors for agile delivery tribes. Bringing this mindset on the top of the list of product owners and other stakeholders is currently the main challenge in RBI. David has extensive experience as Software Developer and Architect, together with a long engagement in agile topics, these are the ingredients to tackle the transformation.