Style
The 'Style' element of Ecosystem Team management focuses on the different leadership styles that managers can adopt to motivate, guide, and support their teams effectively. The leadership style of a manager can have a significant impact on team performance, engagement, and culture.
The activities are the same as described in the Product Team section, but the scope is wider, encompassing the entire ecosystem.
- Generative Culture: Creating a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous learning that fosters innovation and high performance.
- Decentralised Decision Making: Empowering teams to make decisions autonomously and take ownership of their work.
- Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled: Ensuring that teams are aligned with the overall goals and objectives of the ecosystem while maintaining autonomy and flexibility in their day-to-day operations.
- Communication Practices: Establishing clear and effective communication practices that enable transparency, collaboration, and information sharing across the ecosystem.
- Evangelising the Product: Building enthusiasm and excitement around the ecosystem vision, strategy, and roadmap to inspire and motivate the team.
- Servant Leadership: Leading by example, serving the needs of the team, and enabling their success.
Anti-Patterns
- Command and Control: Adopting a top-down, authoritarian leadership style that stifles creativity, innovation, and collaboration.
- Micromanagement: Over-managing and closely monitoring team members, undermining trust, autonomy, and motivation.
- Lack of Transparency: Withholding information, feedback, or decisions from the team, leading to confusion, mistrust, and disengagement.