There’s More Than Meets the Eye to Agile Coaching
This year at AYE Jerry Weinberg hosted a session titled “Coaching the Coaches“. Jerry split the group up into people who self-identified as Coaches (coaches or managers who do coaching stuff), people who have been coached and people who didn’t feel they fit into either category. Jerry asked the coaches how they received the title ‘Coach‘ and when it came to my turn I said it’s for marketing. All the cool kids are doing it, that’s what the industry...
Read MorePosition Paper for Agile Coach Camp 2010
Agile Coach Camp 2010 is coming the weekend of March 19, 2010 in North Carolina. I’ve heard great things about Coach Camp and this is my first opportunity to attend. You can check out their site here and for those who aren’t familiar with Coach Camp, it’s an Open Space conference focused on peer-to-peer learning and exploration as opposed to the traditional speaker/audience conferences I’m not a huge fan of. Anywho, onto the position paper: You’ll notice...
Read MoreThe Agile Coach Manifesto
The Agile Manifesto is the heart of soul of what it means to be Agile and I often refer back to when talking to colleagues and especially with those that are new to Agile. This post was sparked after a great cross-group meeting that happened yesterday where some information was shared between groups that typically wouldn’t have otherwise collaborated. I had been asked to present a quick talk on Scrum for a couple of new teams that will be starting up soon, followed by a quick overview...
Read MoreAgile Just Don’t Go ’round Here
One of my favourite scenes from Tombstone is when Ike Clanton says to Wyatt Earp, “Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don’t go around here. Savvy?” After Wyatt replies that he’s retired, Ike reiterates “Yeah, that’s good, Mr. Law Dog, ’cause law don’t go around here.” A common theme that has been emerging from the classes I’ve been delivering and conversations I’ve been having are along the lines of “wow, we need to change...
Read MoreA Week in the Life of an Agile Coach – Wednesday
9:30am - Oops, overslept a bit, but yesterday was pretty busy so I’m glad I got some rest. I head over to the A/V room, grab a projector, stop at the cafeteria to grab some wake-up juice and then across the building for our retrospective and iteration planning. 10:15am – We usually skip the standup on iteration planning day and since the team needed to travel to the head office for the demo yesterday, we all agreed to do our retrospective today. Normally we would go right into...
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