Agile Journal August 2010 |
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| Tuesday, 10 August 2010 00:00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Agile Journal
Agile Journal is an online magazine and e-newsletter focused on providing readers with the need-to-know information and resources they need to develop software for an agile business. For over three years Agile Journal has delivered thought leadership and pragmatic advice from a wide range of industry experts, as well as direct feedback from hands-on developers and project managers. Review Previous Editions | Subscribe | Contact the Editors -- Read the Current Edition Below Agile Coaching - August 2010
The collaborative nature of being agile and lean presents an interesting paradigm shift where roles and responsibilities somewhat blur and teams ideally self-organize and self-direct. The agile coach, among other roles, respectfully knows the importance of not offending or alienating folks in exiting organizational roles such as Quality Analysts, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Testers, etc.; roles not specifically defined in Scrum. As time goes on, the agile coach helps team members reflect on and refine their roles to meet the goal and needs of the team and organization. The topic for this month’s edition is: Agile Coaching. The articles contained within you should find insightful, thought provoking, creative and worth your while to read. In my article What is an Agile Coach, I introduce an agile coach is a go-giver not a go-getter and guided by an internal gyroscope that is set to SMART.
Dr. Pan-Wei Ng and Mark Magee, in their article "You Have To Be Agile To Coach Agile," discuss how to work with people, how to can manage coaching progress and setting objectives and expectations. Lyssa Adkins, in her article "Agile Coach Performance Management: Measure Yourself as a Coach, Not as a Manager," shares with us a chapter from her recently released book Coaching Agile Teams. Alan Atlas and Mark Kilby, in their article "Agile Coaching for Your Agile Company," discuss why coaching and training are indispensable to agile transformations. Laurie Sheppard, master certified Life and Career Coach, in her article "Coaching Fundamentals," discusses:
Nirav Assar, in his article "The Agile Tipping Point," insightfully answers the questions:
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