Agile Leadership Toolkit

Peter Koning is an author, speaker, and senior consultant who has more than fifteen years of experience as an agile leader. He has led several agile departments and improved the agile way of working at different companies. He has coached, mentored, and trained dozens of agile leadership teams. Through his work, he has developed and refined a concrete and cohesive toolkit for agile leaders. He also founded his own company: Re-Lead (https://re-lead.co/en/), where he works to refresh, redefine, and reinvent leadership.

• Foreword xiPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xxiiiAbout the Author xxv Part 1: Co-Create Goals 1 1.1 How Do You Set the Right Goals? 3 1.2 How Do You Find the Right KVIs? 13 1.3 How to Visualize the Customer Impact? 23 Summary of Part 1–Co-Create Goals 31 Part 2: Facilitate Ownership 37 2.1 When Do Teams Take Ownership? 39 2.2 When Is Intervening the Best Strategy, and When Is Letting Go Better? 49 2.3 How Mature Is My Team? 57 2.4 How Do Typical Teams Grow? 63 2.5 How Can the Borders Be Aligned with the Maturity? 69 2.6 When Does the Ownership Model Work and When Does It Not? 77 Summary of Part 2–Facilitate Ownership 81 Part 3: Learn Faster 89 3.1 How Do You Know Your Teams Are Doing the Right Things? 91 3.2 How Quickly Do My Teams Learn from Users? 101 3.3 How Can the Learning Loop Be Put into Practice? 109 3.4 How Can Teams Implement Big Ideas in Small Steps? 117 3.5 Minimize the Blast Radius 127 Summary of Part 3–Learn Faster 131 Part 4: Design Healthy Habits 137 4.1 How Do You Stimulate an Agile Culture? 139 4.2 How Do You Design Healthy Habits? 153 4.3 Can You Anchor the Cultural Improvement? 165 4.4 What Is a Healthy Habit to Implement Improvements? 171 Summary of Part 4–Design Healthy Habits 187 The Agile Leader as Culture Leader 189 Concrete Questions 189 After Reading This Book 193 Why a New Toolkit? 194 Agile Leadership Toolkit 195 Index 199

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