Do you feel like a deer caught in the headlights when your team brings up impediments at the daily stand up? Or, do you feel like the person who walks in to the cafe and all of the diners turn around and look at you?

Have we got a session for you! In just over an hour, Scrum Masters (and other people) will learn to identify impediments and figure out what to do with them. This session is based on work that has been done at various organizations and as part of an interactive online course for advancing scrum mastership.

This session has two parts. In the first part, you will learn how to identify impediments, including words and phrases to listen for during the daily scrum. In the second part, you will work in small groups to reveal ways to deal with impediments.

Participants will leave the session with an action plan and confidence about how to identify and work with impediments. Your teams may notice the difference within the next sprint!

Coaching stances are a self-charter, a guide for agile coaches and practitioners as they work with individuals and teams. They serve as a way for agile coaches to keep themselves on course and to navigate the choppy waters they undoubtedly encounter. So, how do you go about building that charter, that stance, so that you can show up authentically and as your best self? And, how do you best convey your stance to your team and in your organization?

In this workshop, Kari and Erin will lead activities designed to help you identify the values and behaviors that define your coaching stance. Through facilitated peak experience and mundane experience exercises, you will uncover and explore your values in ways that are personal and meaningful. In small groups, you will share what is important about these values in the work they do as agile coaches and how you can demonstrate these values in their work within the organization, whether that’s with teams, management, senior leadership, or other agile coaches. You will also choose an image that resonates with the way you would like to illustrate your coaching stance--or design one of your own. Erin and Kari will leave you with inquiries to further develop your charter once you return home from the conference.

With the tools and exploration in this workshop, you can return to your teams and organizations, better prepared to serve as agile champions and thoughtful agile-coaching practitioners. It is our hope that you will be inspired to help other agilists in your organizations to create their own values-driven coaching stances.

What if:

> You developed rich relationships with value partners around your business ecosystem?

> You trusted that your value partners understood your concerns and desired outcomes, and were commited to your success, as you are to theirs?

> Your people could welcome change as opportunity?

> You could count on timely, trustworthy information and robust feedback for developing products and services?

> Working with you was naturally rejuvenating?

With all that operating, your business would enjoy Ecosystem Intelligence. Your people would co-inspire social 'safety', satisfying the social brain and optimizing both individual and collective smarts. You would become a sought-after workplace that generates loyalty, learning productivity and profitability in the face of ongoing uncertainty.

You'd have the energy and appetite to welcome the next question.

In this session, you will practice techniques born of a rich, multi-disciplinary cocktail and tempered over four decades. We will review examples and research that demonstrate why these techniques build agility and prepare participants to take the benefits of Ecosystem Intelligence back to their 'day jobs.'