Gregory Balestrero, the president and CEO of PMI (Project Managemen Institute) talks about his trip to the Florida Scrum Gathering (sponsored by the scrum alliance).

He notes that "The leader has facilitation skills, employs team approaches to solve problems, and works well with and resolves conflict, engages more individuals to gain diversity of thought, and can bring convergence from such wide diversity. Clearly, our ideal leader is one who is far less hierarchical and autocratic, and believes in engagement as a way of doing business."

I say, it's good to hear the PMI spokesperson finally talking down about the deeply hierarchical nature of organizations.

We really do need to flatten our org charts and get engaged with our product development. We need to create leaner IT organizations that service our customers more effectively.

Further PMI/Agile debates on the topic are being held here