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From Project Rescue to High Performance

25-minute Talk

This talk reveals how shifting your stance as a coach or lead can transform stuck teams, through clear articulation, deep listening, and true enablement.

Virtual Pass session

Timetable

4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Wednesday 26th

Room

Room F1 - Track 1: Talks

Agile Methodologies Collaboration & Communication Leadership

Audience

Coaches, Scrum Masters, Team Leads, anyone navigating resistance or stuck team dynamics.

Key-Learnings

  • Learn how to sense and shift your coaching / leadership stance to match what your team really needs.
  • Discover a simple tool to decode resistance and what it’s truly signaling.
  • Explore how mastering articulation unlocks leadership clarity and trust.

A real story of project rescue... where shifting stance unlocked leadership clarity, peer trust, and true team autonomy.

Every Agile coach or team lead has faced it: a team that resists, a framework that doesn’t land, and a delivery environment teetering on chaos. In this talk, I’ll share the true story of a project like that. One that forced me to confront the most important question I’ve learned to ask:

What does this team really need from me right now?

You’ll discover how becoming aware of your stance, and learning to shift it with intention, can be the difference between continued resistance and true transformation.

Through this story, we’ll explore three challenge areas:

  1. Leadership: What truly matters when speaking to execs and how mastering articulation of risk, progress, and need creates alignment
  2. Peer resistance: A powerful tool to uncover what resistance is really telling you (hint: it’s not just sabotage)
  3. Team enablement: The unexpected approach I had to take to build real autonomy and why letting go was harder than I thought

This isn’t a story about doing Agile better. It’s a call to lead with presence, awareness, and courage, and to build teams that can thrive even when everything feels stuck.

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