Shared Leadership for Better Understanding Agile Teams

Abstract

Leadership has been considered from every angle (almost) and the efforts are going strong. New ideas, books and trends, fads are popping out frequently. It’s not a secret that leadership in Agile is a fundament, started looking from attitude and roles up to practice at every level of the organization. Leadership in Agile Teams is still under dispute. It is time to embrace shared leadership, a very helpful concept in describing an emergent team phenomenon whereby leadership roles and influence are distributed among team members. This approach has surprising support in studies about team performance, well-established history, and even anecdotal evidence from practitioners. This very short paper presents results from the initial research of the author using SNA method.