Evolving Agile Leadership at Riot Games

Evolving Agile Leadership at Riot Games

Agile Leadership is a broadly defined buzzword today. Does it just mean servant leadership or is there more? How does Agile leadership fit with "Agile" Management? While the industry is figuring out all this, at Riot Games, we didn't really care about terminology and definitions, but rather our focus is on building strong, human-centric leaders to lead our 2500-person agile organization. Through these efforts, we have created our own understanding of what Leadership in an Agile organization looks like that is worth sharing. In this talk, Ahmed will:

• Share his reflections on the domain of Agile Leadership in general
• Discuss the frameworks and current ways of thinking about leadership at Riot Games
• Highlight some areas where he disagrees with common agile rhetoric like "having single wringable necks" and using "commanding" stances
• Introduce a new leadership roles & responsibilities framework that provides teams with a way to balance between team-level autonomy, strong accountability

This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs.

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