Coaching is a distinct and powerful skill from the eight other essential skills of an Agile Coach (CSP-SM). Because coaching is an overloaded word in the English language, let me provide some guidance to describe what I mean when I am referring to coaching. For me, a coach is a person ...
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Back in 2012, I worked with a colleague to develop a new course for ScrumMasters (and other Agile change agents). Our goal was to figure out a way to support learners on a progressive educational journey from ScrumMaster to Agile Coach (CSP-SM). While the specific offering we developed did not ...
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An Agile coaching dojo is a safe place to improve three important skills for an Agile Coach - observing, listening and questioning. The goals of an Agile coaching dojo are to offer opportunities to practice listening without judgment, gather information more effectively and ask different kinds of questions to understand ...
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For just a small investment of $13.99, you can have your very own facilitation starter kit! It has post-its! It has Sharpies! It has stickers! It has everything you need for your next collaborative, engaging and productive conversation with the Team, your users and the customers. For just $13.99 you ...
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As of today [2016], the Scrum Alliance identifies 322,157 people as Certified ScrumMasters (CSM). You can find 66,813 people identified as Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO), and a number of people have both certifications. Although the anemic number of Product Owners relative to ScrumMasters raises some questions, the more serious ...
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In the 1996, I attended the Amphibious Warfare School with about 300 other Marine officers to complete a one-year program to prepare us for the next level of our careers. One of the most valuable elements of that experience was the study group. Led by an instructor, our small group ...
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Champion: A person who fights or argues for a cause or on behalf of someone else. Catalyst: A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change. Capacitor: A device used to store an electric charge. Coach: A tutor who gives private or specialized teaching. In our first article, we ...
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Agile Coaches (CSP-SM) are really busy people! There is no way one person can do all these activities on this list each week nor would it make sense to do so, but an effective Agile Coach would be working on most these jobs every six months or so. Rome was not ...
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“Yes… but what does an Agile Coach do all day?” If I had a quarter for ever time I was asked that question in Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course, I would have a lot of quarters. Thankfully, we have an excellent article from Bernd Schiffer (@bernrdschiffer) that lays out forty-two tasks ...
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A recent question in the Certified Scrum Professionals LinkedIn Group, described a common scenario that people have when dealing with distributed Scrum Teams. "ScrumMaster and Scrum coach are onshore (the client) while vendor teams are offshore. Is the client fooling itself?" The short answer to this question is, "Yes - ...
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