A Week in the Life of An Agile Coach – Friday
8:15am - Ah, the end of a long week, I like to get in a bit earlier on Friday’s since it’s usually a pretty low-key day. No meetings, no training, just an opportunity to think and research. After the usual checking the Agile support box and responding to email I start working on some Agile flash cards we want to start distributing. These are 3 x 5 index cards on various Agile topics that folks can use as a pocket reference guide. This will help people at least get some of the...
Read MoreA Week in the Life of An Agile Coach – Thursday
7:30am - I arrive at our head office early as I’m delivering a rather thorough 4-hour Agile introduction to 20 or so people. Since this is my 30th or so time delivering this at this company I’m into a good rhythm and getting here early just allows me to miss most of the morning traffic. I have a chat with the project manager who is handling the budgeting for our team and ask about the hardware we were supposed to get for the team 3 months ago, he lets me know it’s still on...
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...
Read MoreA Week in the Life of an Agile Coach – Tuesday
9:15am - I arrive at the office, check my email and the general Agile support box. Our stand-up is happening soon so I login to our tool and check out the burndown and see what tasks are in progress. 10am – standup. The team wasn’t really happy about standing up at the standups from the get-go so today is the first day we’re actually sitting down. I have to remind a couple of the guys that they aren’t reporting to me so there’s no need to face me and report...
Read MoreA Week in the Life of a Agile Coach – Monday Morning
I thought it would be interesting to share a day-by-day rundown of what a typical week looks like for me. The names have been changed to protect the innocent (or guilty!) but the events and activities are literally what I do week to week. A new article will be posted each day this week and I’ve tried to keep them as short as possible. Week 1 – Monday Morning 8.45-ish – Monday’s always start off with meetings so I make it to our head office downtown and head up to see...
Read MoreGet Lean Change
