A fundamental shift for people adopting agile practices is the move away from less directive management styles, to more facilitative management styles. This happens at all levels, be it the Project Manager, the Technical Lead, or simply the person arranging any meetings to order (for example, the Daily Stand Up, Retrospectives, Planning Games, etc). For those people in influential positions, I like to highlight their impact their facilitative style (good and/or bad) has on the team. Steven List is compiling a set of patterns for these, all very good and many of them which I’ve been witness to. Plenty of other books provide wonderful guides about this, like Jean Tabaka’s Collaboration Explained.
