 Once upon a time team members met had healthy working relationships Sorted out their differences to work towards delivering a project the way of working was largely based on a waterfall model with well-defined linear processes The team it is new exactly what was happening and had full control over who was to do what within the project teams The word Calibration had a different meaning in this way of working and then something strange happened Then came agile when and with agile came an unprecedented need to collaborate and communicate Agile has redefined what teamwork really means Agile has redefined what collaboration really means and agile has redefined what leadership really means And in light of these changes. I'm here to talk about What has and needs to change in our understanding of this leadership role and how it should operate in agile teams today? Based on my many years of experience as an agile coach and working with people in this leadership roles I can tell you that this is one area the leadership area that Most people are struggling with most we as a community are struggling with that the most So today I'm going to cause a little bit of disruption by challenging some of the thinking that has been around for a while But first Let's start on a happy note What I'd like you to do is have a good think about what really makes you happy What gets you motivated in life? And while you're thinking about this will run this as an exercise after all it's an agile session So I'll need two volunteers for this exercise. Please quickly come up to volunteers A big round of applause for our volunteers, right so I Came in from Melbourne and the flight from Melbourne is quite long to get here And I was getting bored in my flight and I thought What I'll do is I'll make a list of things as factors that I think will make the audience in this room happy Right, so I had to go at guessing the kind of things that make you guys happy And what I want to do and here's the list by the way What I want to do is validate these with you guys One by one and I'll call out each factor that I think will make you guys happy and For every factor that you agree with All you have to do is go yay