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Does your Agile team experience the following common problems?

Members use established Agile practices and tools, yet with little motivation or buy-in.
Even though the team is cross-functional, members don’t collaborate effectively or leverage everyone’s abilities.
Rather than act empowered, they wait for permission and approval.
Improvement has stalled — the team performs okay, but it can do so much better.

You can’t solve these problems with more practices, rules, and tools. These are people problems.

If you’re a ScrumMaster, project manager, delivery lead, or manager — or you aspire to be — you can make all the difference to your Agile team. Not by being a taskmaster, administrator, or process enforcer, but by leading your team to greatness. Take this book on your Agile leadership journey, and it will help you to:

Build and cultivate an engaged team that can handle almost any challenge
Catalyze team communication, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Establish yourself as a confident and capable leader who adds value
Reap the full benefits of Agile in the real world with real people

“I’ve rarely seen so much useful, concrete advice packaged in such a simple and accessible way.’
Henrik Kniberg, Agile coach and author, Lean from the Trenches

“I just found the next must-read book for our entire leadership team.’
Tricia Broderick, Director of Development, TechSmith

“Agile teams need effective leaders who ‘get’ the people stuff. Without that you’re merely going through the Agile motions.’
Scott W. Ambler, co-creator of Disciplined Agile Delivery

While readable from cover to cover, the book is written as practical answers to the 80+ most relevant and pressing questions that team leaders ask, such as:

“How Can I Help the Team Buy In?”
“What If I Can't Work Full-Time as the Team’s Leader?”
“What Actions Will Build the Team's Trust in Me?”
“How Can I Mitigate the Damage of Performance Reviews?”
“What If a Member Doesn't Fit With the Team?”
“How Can We Focus on Our Work With So Many Meetings?”
“How Do I Get Stakeholders and Managers on My Side?”
“How Do I Defuse Resistance?”
“How Can I Make Changes Stick?”
“How Do We Avoid Reverting to Old Behaviors?”

(Click on Look Inside to browse the complete table of contents.)

The book's forewords are by Jim Highsmith and Christopher Avery.

Gil Broza has been helping organizations increase their business agility since 2004. Through coaching, training, and facilitation, he supports leaders in building engaged teams that live the Agile values and principles and that reap their benefits. His other popular book is The Agile Mind-Set: Making Agile Processes Work.

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I've rarely seen so much useful, concrete advice packaged in such a simple and accessible way. - Henrik Kniberg, Agile coach and author, Lean from the Trenches

I just found the next must-read book for our entire leadership team. - Tricia Broderick, Director of Development, TechSmith

Agile teams need effective leaders who 'get' the people stuff. Without that you're merely going through the Agile motions. - Scott W. Ambler, co-creator of Disciplined Agile Delivery

Is your Agile project missing stewardship, the facilitation that would help it succeed? If so, run to buy Gil's book. Chock full of stories, tips, and advice, this book will 'unwedge' your project, and position you for effective team leadership throughout your project. - Johanna Rothman, author, Manage Your Project Portfolio

At Menlo, our cultural focus is 'the business value of joy.' Joy is only possible when we sustain the humans involved throughout the life cycle of a project. Gil Broza gives us a very practical guide to the human factors in sustainable process and agility. - Rich Sheridan, CEO and co-founder, Menlo Innovations

About the Author

Gil Broza specializes in helping tech leaders deliver far better results by upgrading their organizations' Agile ways of working. He also supports their non-software colleagues in creating real business agility in their teams. Gil has helped over 100 organizations achieve real, sustainable improvements by working with their unique value delivery contexts and focusing on mindset, culture, and leadership. Companies also invite Gil for leadership advisory, strategic mapping of their improvement journey, facilitation of organizational mindset workshops, and keynotes for internal conferences.

Gil has published four practical books:

Deliver Better Results provides 10 systemic strategies for sustainably improving value delivery
The Agile Mind-Set helps practitioners and leaders alike master Agile thinking and go beyond particular frameworks and practices
The Human Side of Agile guides Agile team leaders in facilitating team excellence in the real, messy world
Agile for Non-Software Teams helps managers outside of software/IT consider, design, start, and grow effective custom implementations

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ 3P Vantage Media; Illustrated edition (August 17, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0988001624
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0988001626
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.02 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.78 x 9 inches

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Gil Broza specializes in helping tech leaders deliver far better results by upgrading their Agile ways of working. He also supports their non-software colleagues in creating real business agility in their teams. Gil has helped over 100 organizations achieve real, sustainable improvements by working with their unique value delivery contexts and focusing on mindset, culture, and leadership. Companies also invite Gil for specialized support, such as strategic mapping of their improvement journey, facilitation of organizational mindset workshops, and keynotes for internal conferences. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Oluf Nissen

The Agile Linchpin guide

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2012

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If you've read Seth Godin's "Linchpin", and your chosen field of "becoming the best in the world in" is leading Agile teams, this book gives you all the details on how to become the Agile Linchpin in your environment. It's full of practical advice, presented in a way that can be read cover-to-cover, but also organized such that you can quickly find answers to questions you ask yourself in your day-to-day work.

You'll learn about designing your role, growing an Agile team, engaging in powerful conversations, being an Agile leader, and sustaining your team for the long term. You'll find plenty of extra food for thought if you follow the links in the notes section, and you can download handy one- and two-page worksheets and resources from the book's companion website.

Gil's book is the most practical "how-to" for Agile leaders and Agile change agents that I've found so far.

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Laura Woten

A great (must) read!

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2012

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Gil really nails this one on the head! I think another reviewer said, "stop doing Agile and start being Agile" and I couldn't agree more. This book is designed to be on your desk, dog-eared, tape flagged, and well loved. I have read it cover to cover, but find myself going back to it and reading a chapter (or a part of a chapter) at a time, and that's more what Gil intended. I happened to be asked to read the manuscript and am so happy for Gil with the finished product. After it was published, I ordered a copy for another ScrumMaster who works with me and is struggling with getting her team from moving from "storming" to "norming". Highly recommend.

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Gateway Book into Understanding How Agile Teams Work

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2013

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There are many books about agile leadership. This is the one to start with as it covers all of the key areas and also points you to many of the canonical resources for the role of people in agile. To be successful at agile you need to understand the process you are using and the technical skills. There are few guides that cover the "meta" level where real people struggle with adopting agile methods. This may well become the standard companion book to the process and technical books on agile to address that level. You'll still want to read others to dive more deeply into specific areas, but this book can be your guide.

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Steve Neiderhauser

How to Help People Succeed at Agile Development

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2013

Agile development is a social game, a game that involves people. After you realize this truth, you start searching for ways to help people become better at the craft of software development. The Human Side of Agile covers just about every topic related to dealing with people on a team.

The great thing about this book is that you can use it as a reference or read it at your own pace. So when you are confronted with an issue while coaching a team, simply turn to the index and look up a solution.

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Robert Shaw

Why Agile Fails... (This is what is missing)

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2012

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Agile has a dirty secret..
Many Coaches will teach you how to do Agile, how to follow the rule and change your process (for the better).
Many times you will hear that Agile is NOT a silver bullet, it is a Silver Mirror..
However it can take time.. Sometimes a long time for the true impacts of agile to manifest in your teams.
The realization that they have to embrace being agile and its tenets at their core. This change can cause distributions and tensions as people try to Grasp the change that is happening.
I would list this book as a MUST READ for anyone undergoing agile adoption especially at the end of year one.

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Paulo Rebelo

A Unique Book for Real Leaders!

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2012

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Gil Broza teaches us not only how to be a great manager or leader, in fact, he guides us in every possible angle of agile methodology. He undertakes a myriad of pragmatic actions in a real life workplace.

The book opened my mind as a result of gathering more responsibilities as an Agile Team Leader (ATL), as he names perfectly. Furthermore, it covers a fully understanding of building a strong team and keeping them productive and motivated.

For these reasons, I would recommend it to any person accountable for delivering awesome products in a sustainable environment and pleasant.

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Brad R White

The human side - the key to going agile.

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2015

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This book helped us take our agile implementation to the next level.
I've seen many teams implement the agile practices and then get stuck, not making much more progress on the journey toward being agile.
One of the frequent comments about agile is that it doesn't *cause* problems with your development efforts, but it will *expose* problems. But what then? This book answers both of those problems. After you've implemented the practices, the next step is to make progress on the human side with those problems that are exposed.

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David Vydra

This is the book I'll take on the plane with me.

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2013

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C.S. Lewis once remarked "We read to know we are not alone". This is a fantastic book that captures much of the known wisdom of how to succeed with Agile and provides additional fresh insights. As a practicing Agile Coach, I'll keep this book in my hotel room, next to the other great books often found there, and look to it for help when facing tough (human) challenges on my projects.

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Ola Lampejo

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2023

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Understands What Agility is all about in all its entirety.

Paul Oldfield

Good for ANY team

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2012

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There are so many aspects of this book I could comment about; which ones shall it be? First, I just had to show this to the guy who trains our facilitators; he says it covers all he teaches and much more - it's now on our recommended reading list. And these people aren't specifically agile - this book is good for ANY team.

Well, there are a plethora of books on Agile. Most of them deal with the "how" but are very thin on the "Why" - sure they're fine on "Why Agile", not "Why this practice" and even shorter on "When not this practice". I'm happy to say this book does pretty well on covering the "Why this practice", and in focusing on the communiations and facilitation areas, it complements the far more common engineering practice books very well.

I did notice one or two places where I would have given different advice, but this was always a matter of degree and priority, never a fundamental disagreement... and I think I only noticed them in my first dip into the book; I can't even remember now what gave me that first impression!

Above all, though, it is the vast number of scenarios covered that earns this book its fifth star from me. Examples and anecdotes abound, and bring the subject matter to life, resulting in a very readable book

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one of the best books about creating an agile team

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2015

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Quite simply, one of the best books about creating an agile team. Creating a high performance team is all about focussing on the people and this book helps you do that. IMHO, it should be a staple in every agile practitioner's bookshelf.

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