In an environment marked by the presence of agile practices for project management, the leadership role needs to present competencies that involve changes concerning market conditions and business uncertainties. They are responses to rapid changes and agility as an organizational competence to deal with these environmental factors surrounding the life cycle of projects. The objective of this article was to identify how studies on agile project management practices approach leadership. As a

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... dological strategy, a Systematic Literature Review was adopted to assist in the mapping and evaluation of a specific intellectual structure to develop a body of knowledge. For data collection, the Web of Science and Scopus databases were used. Initially, 120 articles were found. The results showed that there are still obstacles to implementing the agile approach in the organizations, but that practices based on agile leadership and servant leadership can help agile development in the projects. The contribution to adopting agile leadership and servant leadership is to facilitate transforming traditional organizations into agile organizations.