Software the Agile Way....

There are four leadership styles: Directing, Coaching, Supporting and Delegating. o Delegating i.e. Low Supportive & Low Directive o Directing i.e. Low Supportive & High Directive o Supporting i.e. High Supportive & High Directive o Coaching i.e. High Supportive & Low Directive Situational Leadership is a way of describing and analysing leadership styles. It is a combination of directive and supportive behaviours. Directive behaviour involves telling people what to do, how to do it, where to do it, when to do it and then closely supervising this performance.  Supportive behaviour involves listening to people, providing support and encouragement for their efforts and then facilitating their involvement in problem solving and decision-making. Source-  http://business-financialrange.com/?p=1663

Generally teams take on different types of work that is  - building new features and fixing broken features that are product related. PO ideally want only new features and begrudgingly accepts defects.  - fixing poor code, outdated code that is hampering and slowing the team down in building value to the product. Developers feel they are working on 'bad' code and find new work demotivating as they have to work through pains. This is tech debt its best and Product Owners struggle to  recognize  this and see the importance.  - practice and build improvements. Introducing ALM tooling, build pipelines, automated testing take significant effort and much more than most people  realize . Teams spend months on this. Product Owners don't  realize  that this takes work to  customize  for their product as they expect it to work out the box. The reality it's not plug and play and takes effort.  PO needs some education on technical debt and building products in an agile way.  T