Sreeanand Chandran and Sunitha Shenoy
“ You are the most difficult person you will ever lead” [1]- so any change which is expected out of the team needs to begin with the leader and any leader puts people above things. Agile also follows the same concept. In general Leadership has always been a contemplated topic. Great philosophers like Plato , Plutarch etc have pondered on the question :“What makes an individual a leader?” In Agile it is crucial to get an answer to this question, as we are dealing with various members of the team, where in each of them take on the leadership role as and when situation demands, and also that Servant Leadership is being followed as an Agile practice. Being an adaptive, situational and people centric leader is the need of the hour. A Scrum master, product owner or an Agile Coach needs to fulfill these needs as they are looked upon as the servant leaders in an agile rich organization. A leader is one who is constantly interacting with the team, understands their skills, positives, their deltas, and assign the task accordingly. They parallely enable them to work through their weakness and make a robust team to succeed. A leader’s emotional quotient is the key to the success of the team, as he works through upskillig himself and encourages the team to improve on a continual basis. As part of a paper under the research topic Psychoagilical- this paper is an attempt to touch upon the Psychological aspect of leadership using Transaction analysis concept of “Frame of reference”.
Agile, Leadership, Psychoagilical, frame of reference, transactional analysis.