Understanding Agile & Lean Coaching
So you are considering getting a coach to help you in your transition to Agile. Or perhaps you are an Agile practitioner considering becoming an Agile coach. What do these Agile coaches do? What makes them different?
This session will enter the foyer of the house that describes what coaches do and considerations one can have when they think about coaching (including hiring one). Prepare to be challenged and to learn a bit of what it takes to be or work with a coach; it has little to do with courses or certifications, though they may help. In covering what coaches do, one can now begin to think along the lines of what the skills one may need to improve.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
This talk will open with an actual coaching exercise (20 min).
It then moves though some helpful models on how to think about coaching based on responsibility that can be used to determine the roles as needed, and other dimensions that come into play. It also steps through various "voices" taken from The Mindful Coach by Doug Silsbee. (10 min)
To make these more concrete, we'll step through some scenarios a coach may perform and review what roles the coach is taking and the vices they may end up using within that role. (10 min)
We'll then explore what Helping means and how it changes the self-esteem of people and discuss the repercussions of imposing help. (5 min)
Closing Exercises/Statements (10 min)
Q&A (Remaining)
Learning Outcome
In this session you will learn some of what a coach does and how you can think through what skills may be needed to be successful.
Target Audience
Agile PractitionersInterested in Coaching or People Interested in Hiring an Agile Coach
Prerequisites for Attendees
Understanding of Agility through regular practice.
Links
This session has been given a few times; at AgileDC 2017, Agile & Beyond 2018, and at ALN-DC and the DC Scrum User's Group (DC-SUG), though it was longer at the meetups and had some additional ways to think about a coaching journey in those. That portion was removed to stay within the time constraints, though some new material has been added to include the 'voices' of a coach and helping. The link is for the 45 minute talk I gave at AgileDC.
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Ended on Aug 24 '18 08:00 PM EDT
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