Bridging the Gap: Communicating with Leadership as an Agilist
Effective communication between project teams and organizational leadership is highly important for the success of any project!
For Scrum masters or project managers, it’s crucial to maintain a clear communication channel with leadership.
Consider these strategies for improving your connections and building stronger relationships with your leaders.
Use the language of leadership
Leaders can often look at projects with a strategic lens, concentrating on results that impact the company’s financial performance and the benefits they bring — often being business and feature value.
By using the language of “leadership” to engage in effective communication, you need to match your team’s goals with the overarching business objectives. Think about aligning your own goals, to your team goals to your organizational goals, which is what I refer to as “adaptive management”.
To see find out how to do this, see my article: Setting Up Ways to be Adaptive. A key outcome of an an Agile mindset is… | by Luke Pivac | Agile | Adapt | Medium
