Agile coaching

Agile Coaching

Tips:

• An agile coach works with development teams to help or motivate and improve with their effectiveness and applying agile principles to their work.

• An agile coach's portfolis is team collaboration and how the work is organized to work on a steady stream of valuable working software. You should have experience first at hand the agile software development to be able to understand the needs of an agile team.

• As an agile coach, you should be able to introduce yourself properly. Or you should get the team's attention to be able to conduct a proper agile coaching or demonstration.

• As an agile coach, you have to be passionate about the benefits that agile approaches offer. It is easy to come across as an evangelist who talks in a weird language full of agile buzzwords and acronyms like TDD and WIP

• An agile coach should gain respect throughout the whole team. If you cant get the respect you need, it’s very hard to implement such agile development process or simply agile.

• An agile coach should able to prepare questions because it is basically a fundamental tool that in your agile coach’s toolkit so it’s worth learning how to ask powerful questions. However, take care not to rely too heavily on asking questions when coaching, as people can feel you are putting pressure on them to come up with all the answers rather than taking your share in problem solving

• Finally, able to motivate a person in each team or the whole team itself to be able to fulfil the agile methodology.

References:

• wikipedia.org

• methodsandtools