My last 2 days where full of impressions and learnings about the new way of management. I took the management 3.0 course hosted by Juergen Dittmar based on Jurgen Appelo’s management 3.0 ideas.
One and a half year ago I read the amazing book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature) and was fascinated by all the fresh ideas Jurgen described. That time I was working as a ScrumMaster and already used some of the ideas in my daily work. But…
Starting this year I became an agile manager – with responsibility for our development center. It’s changing my focus too. It was time to take the management 3.0 course.
My goals for the course
I attended the course with the following goals in mind:
- Refresh what I read and get more practical hands on experience and input
- Get a even clearer picture what it means to be an agile manager
- Connect with likeminded people and share experiences
Key takeaways
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Meddlers |
- Moving motivators – this game is really cool and this was affirmed by the group
- Delegation poker is something worth to consider for getting the levels of delegation clear (key input for role clarification)
- I really liked the way we were using Kudos and I got new input how to use it in an even more simplified way. The motivation during the 2 days and especially at the end were great – I got 5 Kudos yeah!!
- Meddlers really helps getting a grasp on the team structure and having a nice visualized discusion base for structural extensions
- The importance of team diversity and a nice intro with the personal sheet as opener to check the diversity in your team
All in all – there is so much to do for an agile manager – it’s amazing and overwhelming. Really no need to worry for management in the agile context.
Nice additional input
Next books, books, books
- Radikal führen (German)
- Und Mittags geh ich heim (Detlef Lohmann, German)
- Wenn Sie wollen, nennen Sie es Führung (Cyrus Achouri)
- Die 12 neuen Gesetze der Führung (Pfläging, German)
- Drive (Dan Pink)
- Das Chaos managen (Ralph D Stacey, German)
- Fearless change (Mary Lynn Manns)
- Radical Management (Denning)
- Leading Changer (Kotter)
- Das Pinguin Prinzip (Spencer Johnson, German)
To explore
- Stoos network
- Betacodex network – decentralized leadership network instead of organigrams
- Design thinking
- Idea behind Emergence
- Scaled agile framework
- Hierarchy and job title topic
- … and much more
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Thanks Jürgen Dittmar and the group for the special 2 days |
Hi Sebastian,
Thanks for sharing your impressions on our two day course. I totally agree with your findings, I will definetely try using delegation poker in our Teams and spread the word about the moving motivators method.
Thanks again for your great input during the course, raising the bar at some points.
See you at the next Stammtisch.
Best Regards
Philip (FELD M)
HI Philip,
thanks for your input too. I'm looking forward for the next meeting at m30-stammtisch.
Regards,
Sebastian