Management is dead, at least traditional management is. No need to tell you what’s wrong with traditional management, you’ve probably experienced it yourself. And the results are outrageous, be it at company level, team level, and individual level; downright from project failures to complete demotivation of the staff. Managers need to evolve, or they simply won’t survive if they don’t bring solutions to the above problems. From traditional management to … Agile management and leadership. You, as an experienced manager or as a wannabe/junior manager, are in a key position to change this. By attending this 60-minutes talk, you’ll (re-)discover proven and actionable techniques to improve your management skills, foster team productivity, and keep morale and motivation atop. Yes, success is that close ;-)

1. Management is Dead
Management is Dead
Stephane Rondal
November 2014

2. Stephane Rondal
18+ years of experience
Java architecture
Team leading
Agile
Co-founder of Arexo
Co-founder of Wajug
@stephanerondal
stephane.rondal@arexo.be

3. Look around and observe
observing

4. Demotivation
demotivation

5. Unmotivated
(70%)
70% of employees are unmotivated

6. disengDaisgeengmageemnetnt

7. Project Failure
project failure

8. Projects failure
65-80% of IT projects fail
Source: http://www.it-cortex.com/Stat_Failure_Rate.htm

9. Management Failure
management failure

11. Brighter future?
looking brighter?

12. It’s your lucky day!
You can change the world 

13. techniques
#lead, don’t manage
#why first
#task assignation
#empower

14. management 3.0
techniques
• Energize people
• Empower Teams
• Align Constraints
• Develop Competence
• Grow Structure
• Improve Everything

15. Lead, don’t manage
lead, don’t manage

16. Source: http://blog.corporater.com/blog/2013/12/04/manager-or-leader/
lead, don’t manage

17. Benefits
• Truly understand how your team works
• More efficient at removing impediments
• More efficient at fostering productivity
• Gain respect
lead, don’t manage

18. As a manager, it’s your job

20. How
• Sit with your team
• Take some of their tasks
• Pair with a team member
• Don’t say what to do, act
lead, don’t manage

21. Example
Pairing with a team member acting
as Release Manager
lead, don’t manage

22. First WHY, then HOW
start with why, not how

23. « Why » communicates original intention
« Why » help people understand better
« Why » motivates people powerfully

24. « How » directs people to one direction
« How » helps focus on one solution
« How » risks loosing the global picture
« How » helps the less experienced
« How » may frustrate the more
experienced

25. WHY or HOW ??

27. Example
Confidential Project Architecture

28. Team 1 View
Confidential Project Architecture

29. Team 2 View
Confidential Project Architecture

30. Team 3 View
Confidential Project Architecture

31. People keep complaining?

32. listen
(or not)
show empathy
something wrong going on?

33. Responsibilize
Empower
Put them in a position to change
things
…. And then watch!

34. Scaling Agile @ Spotify
with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds
Example
Henrik Kniberg & Anders Ivarsson
Oct 2012

35. Example
« Your small family of people having
similar skills and working within the
same general competency area »

36. task
assignation

37. team roles
(Belbin)

38. Management is not dead
Evolve to more Agile Leadership to
foster motivation and productivity
#lead, don’t manage
#why first
#task assignation
#empower

39. THANK YOU !
AREXO CONSULTING
Stephane Rondal
stephane.rondal@arexo.be
@stephanerondal
www.arexo.be