Final Thoughts

Agile leaders manage teams and the teams manage their own tasks. Agile leaders articulate project goals and objectives, the product vision, key capabilities, and constraints, and then encourage team members to deliver them—figuring out the details of how to accomplish the tasks on their own. This approach to project management gives the team flexibility to adapt rather than blindly follow a set of predetermined tasks—it encourages the team to self-organize to find the best way to accomplish their project goals.