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What is an agile coach, really?

Lyssa Adkins [email protected] Twitter: @lyssaadkinsCoachingAgileTeams.com

Radical thoughts…

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Be detached from outcomes


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Take it to the team


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Be a mirror


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Master your face


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Let there be silence


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Model being outrageous


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Let the team fail


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Be their biggest fan

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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

Many journeys…all are OK

An agile coach is…


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What is an Agile 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.

That’s a lot of stuff…how?


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How am I doing?


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The yardstick…

Highly-collaborative characteristics from Collaboration Explained, Jean Tabaka


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What is an Agile Coach?


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An agile coach’s value journal


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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.

Last words…


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Don’tgoitalone


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