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What is an agile coach, really?
Lyssa Adkins [email protected] Twitter: @lyssaadkinsCoachingAgileTeams.com
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Who is Lyssa?
Before Scrum
After Scrum
15-year career in project and program management
PMO director PMP Six Sigma Green Belt
All that + Certified Scrum Trainer and a belief that teams
really do know what’s best
a rabid focus on delivering business value
Scrum Coach Co-active Coach
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An agile coach…Coordinating individual contributions
Coaching forcollaboration
Being a subjectmatter expert
Being a facilitatorfor the team
Being invested inspecific outcomes
Being invested inoverall performance
Knowing the answer
Asking the team forthe answer
Directing Letting the team findtheir own way
Driving Guiding
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An agile coach…
…someone who takes teams beyond getting agile practices up and running, into their deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance.
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The yardstick…
Highly-collaborative characteristics from Collaboration Explained, Jean Tabaka
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Agile coaching is…
As an agile coach you model the key behaviors of a good agilist.
You ARE what you’re trying to teach them to BE.
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