The leadership problem
In product development there is a lot of focus on the value creating units, the teams. As many products are developed in a complex context with a certain degree of uncertainty, teams should apply emergent development practices. Teams also should make decision out of their context rather than developing a product based decisions they didn’t make or where not involved in. Teams already get good support in order to do so by adding roles like Scrum Masters or Agile Coaches. What is often forgotten about, is to also adapt the environment that the team is working in. The consequence is that, once teams reach a certain maturity regarding emergent and self-organized way of working, conflicts with regards to the team’s …