Buckle Up Buttercup: Agile Coaching is More than Just Asking Questions!

A troubling situation has emerged in the Agile community where nearly everyone claims to be an “Agile Coach” or wants to take a class or two to become one. Without understanding the depth and breadth of competencies required to become a skilled coach. In this session, we’ll be myth-busting about the skills and competencies required for Agile Coaching.

We’re going to explore what it takes to become a well-rounded agile coach. Not as a means of judgment or prescription, but simply to share the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel (ACGW) as THE compass for your coaching growth journey.

We’re going to do four things:

1. Cover a quick review of the ACGW.
2. Ask you to take the Comparative Agility, Agile Coaching PI assessment.
3. Ask you to gather in pairs and explore your assessment results.
4. Ask you to identify and commit to the next steps in YOUR Agile Coaching growth learning journey. You’ll leave the session with a deeper understanding of what it means to be an Agile Coach, how you personally stack up, and what immediate steps you can take to strengthen your coaching. We also hope you leave with a positive energy for the art and craft of Agile Coaching.

Learning Outcomes

• More complete understanding of the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel, particularly Self-Mastery.
• Performing a deeper agile coaching competency and skills assessment.
• Grokking your assessment and determining your immediate learning path, with an eye towards continuous improvement.

Meet your speaker, Bob Galen

Bob Galen is an Agile Methodologist, Practitioner & Coach based in Cary, NC. In this role, he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other agile methodologies and practices. He is a Certified Enterprise Coach Emeritus with the Scrum Alliance (CECem) and an active Agile Alliance member. He’s published three Agile-focused books: Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching in 2022, The Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing in 2015, and Scrum Product Ownership, in 2009 – 3rd Edition in 2019. He’s also a prolific writer & blogger (rgalen.com and agile-moose.com) and podcaster (meta-cast.com). Bob may be reached directly via email or networking via Linkedin.