Agile Alliance 2017: Tired of learning your Coaching craft by trial and luck? Many of us begin and emerge as coaches through kismet and fortune, rather than with clear goals for learning and acceptance criteria for progressing in the craft. Instead, why not apply Agile techniques and use Inspect and Adapt to groom a path to guide your learning as an Agile Coach?
In this interactive session, you won’t merely sit and listen; you’ll learn both WITH and FROM other participants. We’ll start by building a learning ‘backlog’ for coaches. Through 3 brief scenarios of increasing complexity, self-organized table-teams will examine what a coach would need to learn in order to be prepared to thrive in that stage. With each scenario, we’ll hold a group ‘demo’ of the topics, techniques, skills and resources for a coach’s learning at that stage.
1. SHU HA RI:
CREATING YOUR COACHING JOURNEY
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“Curved Paths” by Zhao ! is licensed under CC BY
2. WARM UP
Think and Ink
2“More sticky notes” by elitatt is licensed under CC BY
3. CREATE 2 STICKIES:
1 thing you
Already Have Learned
1 thing you
Want to Learn
about growing
as an Agile Coach
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“Post-it Concept Wall” by Jennifer Morrow is licensed under CC BY
4. 90 SECONDS: MEET SOMEONE NEW
4“DOA SPEED DATING - ASC 2009” by Florida Supercon is licensed under CC BY
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“Wikimedia Hackathon 2013 Amsterdam” by Sebastiaan ter Burg is licensed under CC BY
RETURN TO YOUR TABLES
SHARE TOPICS YOU DISCOVERED
10. EXERCISE
100 person, co located organization:
• What resources would you engage?
• Through what initial stages (or backlog
items) might you need to guide the
organization?
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“In the beginning” by Alexander Baxevanis is licensed under CC BY
13. EXERCISE
What are ~5 topics in Agile:
• You likely will need to
routinely cover?
(regular newbie questions)
• You wish that
Organizations / Teams
were ready to cover
because that would
accelerate progress?
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“walking” by David McDermott is licensed under CC BY
16. EXERCISE
• What pains does Agile raise
for leaders / executives?
• What skills or experience will
you need to coach them?
• What might you leverage for
distributed teams?
• What tips from experience
can you offer to others?
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“Running fast” by Peter Krantz is licensed under CC BY
20. COACHING CIRCLE
• Who?
Gather peers
• Where? When?
Colocation, Skype,
Conference Call
• How?
What about
Lean Coffee? Trello?
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“Table of Champagne” by L.C. Nøttaasen is licensed under CC BY