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Look around you and you'll find that many organizations claiming to be Agile or "doing Scrum" are actually doing something else. I call it W-agile. They dress up the work in the trappings of XP and Scrum but really work in nested mini-waterfalls focusing on one big delivery at the end of the project. Often, developers are working in isolation from their business stakeholders which misses the original agile vision. For example, this week I ran a class on Planning with User Stories. Questions asked (see pic) by the people on the course hinted that they were working in a... |
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Back in 2002, Alistair Cockburn wrote about three levels of practice: learn, detach, transcend that we can apply to our listening, reading and coaching. He used Shu-Ha-Ri from Aikido to illustrate that these three levels of practice are found in other skill areas. Shu, the student copies techniques without adapting them. Ha, the student reflects on what has been learned and breaks free from traditions. Ri, the student is now a practitioner extending the art. In the 2nd edition of Agile Software Development, Alistair adds "You can apply Shu-Ha-Ri to designing courses and writing technique materials." Although he takes care... |
Now our Agile Coaching book is published, I am often asked about the process that we used to write it. Your first question is always: how long did it take to write the book? Not an easy one to answer. Writing a book is not one continuous activity. There are peaks and troughs of activity, while the book goes though the review and edit cycles, and the creative juices ebb and flow. Overall, it took us from November 2007 to August 2009 from start to finish---about the same gestation period as an elephant. A long-haul but we're both very proud... |
I've still got the writing bug so I've been beavering away on some new articles on Agile Coaching in last few weeks. They'll eventually appear here: Agile Coaching in DSDM Consortium news Agile Coaching Tips in Methods & Tools Understanding the Role of an Agile Coach in ObjectiveView 11 Hoping to add some more publications to this list soon. Meanwhile, I'm also working on a couple of new talks, as there's new material we didn't have space for in our Agile Coaching book: What Agile Coaches Need to Know for BCS Birmingham Branch on Tuesday 19th January 2010, 6pm in... |
This year there's an increasing interest in Agile Coaching. Sessions about the role of Coach have been popping up in agile conference programs around the globe. Agile2009 even dedicated a stage to sessions on Coaching. Our book on "Agile Coaching" is the first book dedicated to explaining how coaches work with Agile teams. Meanwhile, Lyssa Adkins is also working on a book, "Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Project Managers in Transition", which should be out in the summer of 2010. Yet, despite the burgeoning Agile Coaching movement, there's not much written about how the... |
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