What are three attributes of a leader?

Disciplined Agile regards leaders as people who 1) accept and manage prudent risk to move the initiative forward, 2) create an environment of safety and trust that elicits voluntary followership, and 3) keep everyone aligned on clear, outcome-based goals. These traits are listed among “core leadership behaviours” in PMI’s Agile Practice Guide (pp. 28-30) and reiterated in Choose Your WoW! (CYW, p. 47). Merely assigning tasks or passively “going with the flow” are characterised in the same sources as managerial or follower behaviours, not leadership attributes.

B. Goes with the flow – Described as a follower trait; lacks proactive vision or risk ownership (APG p.29).
D. Assigns tasks – Managerial direction rather than inspirational leadership; emphasises control not trust (CYW p.47).

1. Project Management Institute. Agile Practice Guide, 2017, Section 2.3, pp. 28-30.

2. Ambler, S. & Lines, M. Choose Your WoW!, PMI, 2019, pp. 45-48.