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 course is highly interactive and covers a wide range of material: building community, working with people, teaching practices, fostering transparency, growing collaboration and more. The course challenges participants to engage in one on one as well as group activities.

Objectives (tools and techniques participants will learn)

• Coaching people and building strong delivery and feature teams
• Tools for selecting practices that quickly show value and grow value based agility
• Practices for growing and defining common vision
• Ideas for guiding product planning and product road mapping
• Creating collaborative and informative work spaces
• Leading and improving planning sessions
• Tools for guiding and growing agility in development (e.g. test driven)
• Ideas for promoting and maintaining continuous learning
• Using agile methods to promote value beyond one project or community
• A collection of indicators and monitors useful in promoting sustainable agility

Audience (who will benefit)

This course is great for newly named coaches, certified scrum masters, managers, technical leads, or anyone who want to introduce or improve the use of agile methods.

Course Outline (what we will do)

Day 1: Introductions and expectations; examples of what is takes to be a coach; initial creation of a coaching persona, coaching pre-production (the coaching work the leads up to the first iterations which helps communities get ready to produce)

Day 2: Coaching the early iterations; interactive exercises around core coaching skills like growing collaboration, increasing transparency, fostering courage and learning from or reframing failure; keeping the community bonded during after the early iterations and dealing with change

Click here to view or download a more detailed outline for the course. We also provide one hour brown bag overviews as well as custom versions of the course (e.g. shortened one day version).

Provided Materials

• Digital copies of presentation materials, exercise, and a coaching handbook
• As a green company, DevJam only provides printed materials are available upon request

Registration

You can contact us to arrange on-site training.