ABSTRACT
Self-managing could work for a small team, but no modern organization will be content for long simply trusting a talented group of individuals alone with responsibility for accomplishing critical organizational objectives. The organizational leader, in addition to driving rigor, alignment, and efficiency in general, has special accountabilities. The first accountability of the organizational leader is to recognize the critical role of leadership. As organizational leaders developing and implementing complex systems, the authors need to remember that technical expertise matters immensely. As senior leaders left organizational management roles non-agile initiatives suffered from the lack of leadership and expertise, and there were no more people like this to assign to new teams. Organizational leadership to their credit enthusiastically adopted a new approach for agility, centered on agile studios. Team governance is also a crucial framework to ensure proper organizational context without unnecessarily crippling team autonomy and coherence. As an organizational leader people challenge is to make a small selection of frameworks cultural.
