Coaching Agility

This 2 day course is based on 10 years of coaching experience, guiding the adoption and adaption of agile methods in large and small companies around the world. The material covers building community, workingwith people, teaching practices, fostering transparency, growing collaboration and more. The interactive course challenges participants to engage in one on one as well as group activities. The course has successfully established coaching (and coaches) in companies and projects of all sizes and shapes incountries around the world.

Participants Will Learn:

  • How to building agile communities and strong agile teams
  • Ideas for selecting agile practices that will quickly show value and grow agility
  • Tools for defining and fostering a common vision
  • Pragmatic tools for mining value and building meaningful product backlogs
  • What makes a work area collaborative and informative
  • How to lead effective planning sessions
  • Tools for guiding iterative development and delivery
  • The best ways to connect people and help them learn to stay connected
  • A collection of indicators and monitors useful in promoting sustainable agility

Agenda (this can be a 1 or 2 day course)

This is a two session, and usually a 2 day course. The first session teaches participants how assess agile readiness, prepare for the first planning sessions and help the community through the early iterations. The second session teaches the participants how to keep the spirit of agility alive and healthy as well as how to tune and improve as the community grows and changes over time.

First Session: Finding Your Groove during the Early Iterations:

  • Coaching and leading agility
  • Getting to know the community and creating a coaching / transition plan
  • Creating creative and informative workspaces
  • Mining value: guiding chartering and other value mining techniques
  • Leading planning sessions and fostering emergent leadership
  • Coaching iterative delivery: fostering discussions and retrospectives, social radiators, developer manifestos, talking in tests, and more.

Second Session: Keeping the Band Together and Sustaining Agility:

  • Creating a product planning cadence
  • Growing and adding practices
  • Health measures
  • Coaching indicators (tools for mining strengths and finding deeper problems sooner)

Audience:

Anyone interested in leading or growing agility. Common participants include managers, scrum masters, project leaders, and technical leaders.