Agile Leadership in Rapidly Changing World with Zuzana Sochova

The fast paced technological advancements and social changes have significant impact on Agile Leadership. In our recent edition, we have featured Zuzana Sochova to address the challenges for the Agile leaders in the rapidly changing world.

In this discussed, we have touched upon following topics;

1. Agile leaders emerging haphazardly, practically by chance
2. Suggestions on how an Agile leader should emerge in any organisation
3. Impact of  digitisation, big data, ecosystems, platforms, or artificial intelligence on the journey to achieve business agility
4. Ways to ensure that Agile management and leadership is always aligned/relevant  with/to current times
5. Her advice for today’s CEO’s.

Interviewee: Zuzana Sochova (Author, The Great Scrum Master)

Zuzana is an independent agile coach and trainer, Certified Team Coach, and Certified Scrum Trainer with more than fifteen years of experience in the IT industry. She is a regular speaker at conferences. She is an author of The Great Scrum Master and The Agile Leader: Leveraging the Power of Influence

​​Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)

What it takes to be an Effective Agile Coach with Lyssa Adkins

In an insightful interview with Lyssa Adkins, she describes herself as a leader of leaders. She works on her own leadership abilities as a first step.

She is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. Many of us know her as an author of Coaching Agile Teams which, as a top ranking Agile book for more than a dozen years.

In this interview, she shares her views and experiences on:

1. How can a leader evolve his/her leadership style as the team grows
2. Silliest myth about Agile coaching
3. Her idea of staying actively engaged without dominating team
4. Tips on becoming an effective Agile Coach in today’s world
5. Things to be avoided to become and effective Agile Coach

Interviewee: Lyssa Adkins (Author, Coaching Agile Teams)

Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams which, as a top ranking Agile book for more than a dozen years.

Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG #WomeninAgile programs.

In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute which has developed over 10,000 people in the knowledge, skills and being-ness needed to yield genuinely competent agile coaching. Since 2011, she has been a member of the ICAgile working committee that defines the learning objectives for Agile Facilitation and Coaching and she assesses candidates for the ICAgile-Expert in Agile Coaching competence-based certification. She has also served the Scrum Alliance as an application reviewer for the Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) designation. ​​

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)