- Organizational change artist: Guides the organization through agile adoption (and re-adoption)
- Boundary keeper: Reinforces healthy role boundaries both within the team and between the team and the greater organization
- Value maximizer: Manages the portfolio of projects like a product owner manages a portfolio of user stories, always asking what the highest business value project is now
- Lean manager: Uses lean thinking to improve organizational flow so that the value teams deliver can be realized without delay
- Organizational impediment remover: Finds the gritty courage it takes to remove entrenched impediments
- Team champion: Offers observations from the team boundary and releases the team to reach their fullest potential by truly believing they can
Health indicators:
- Current sprint on target?
- Next release on target?
- Product owner’s direction clear?
- Sponsor satisfied so far?
- Sponsor confident in future delivery?
- Team actively taking their next step toward high performance?