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Agile Coaches

Agile Coach Thoughts about Coaching Agile teams.

by Rachael Davies

Website - http://www.agilexp.com


Agile Coaches Dojo Experiments

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Written by Rachel Davies   
Tuesday, 17 August 2010 03:18
Many people are now moving into agile coach roles and looking for ways to improve their skills. In response to this demand, I've developed an Agile Coaching Skills workshop aimed at practicing agile coaches, to compliment my "Agile Coaching" book. If you're interested, the next public workshops are in London on September 15th and Belgium on 17th. Training can give us a boost but there are still gaps to be filled as we grow into a new role. We need a way for agile coaches to support their ongoing learning without relying on trainers (who are few and far between)....
 

The Gordon Pask Award

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Written by Rachel Davies   
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 10:46
Next week, I'll be involved in discussions over who gets the Agile Alliance's Gordon Pask awards. I'm writing this blog to bust a few myths about the award and selection process. Despite rumors that the award is an "old boys club" selected by past winners, I've been on the committee from the start. I'm female and automatically out of the running, as a board director of Agile Alliance. The Creation Story We were nearing the end of an Agile Alliance board meeting, the day before Agile2005 conference was due to start in Denver. After a full-day retrospective, facilitated by Esther...
 

Building Trust on Agile Teams

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Written by Rachel Davies   
Tuesday, 03 August 2010 07:52
We explain some techniques for building trust on agile teams in our Agile Coaching book. However, I continue to explore this topic, as I believe it's essential for agile coaches to master. As an agile coach, you want to build trust with the people on the team you are coaching. You also want to improve trust between individuals on the team (which is hard to do if the team doesn't trust you yet). This blog shares my latest thinking on how you can help encourage trust to grow in different situations. Since our book was published, I ran two workshops...
 

Leadership is a State of Mind

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Written by Rachel Davies   
Saturday, 29 May 2010 04:08
So much of what is written about leadership is hogwash. There's no recipe to follow. It starts with you and a belief in yourself. A belief in new possibilities. A belief in your abilities to make changes in the world, and an appreciation that you can't do it all on your own! All you need to know about leadership you learned when you were a kid. Cast you mind back to a sunny afternoon hanging out with friends with nothing to do. You see the football out in the yard. "What about a game?" You look around at your pals....
 

Building an Agile Environment

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Written by Rachel Davies   
Friday, 07 May 2010 01:03
My favourite Agile Manifesto principle is "Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done." As coaches, we naturally work with people helping them form cross-functional teams and install agile practices that drive iterative product development. How many of us throw our energy into improving the environment that people work in? Yes, most agile coaches know how important it is to setup a visual workspace, with cards on a board in the team space, as Xavier illustrates so well on his Visual Management blog. What more can we...
 
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