Coaching Agile Teams Courses

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Coaching Agile Teams is a training experience that covers both the being and the doing of agile coaching.

The material is taught in two 2-day courses. There’s a lot to learn, experience and practice!

At the end of each course, you will be capable of applying many new tools and techniques, as well as your own mindset changes, to coach agile teams to high performance.

As practical as it is provocative, the Coaching Agile Teams courses challenge agile coaches to rise to the fullest expression of their role and offer simple, practical ways to get there.

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Outcome
You’ll walk away from each of the two courses with your personal coaching improvement backlog – a tangible plan you can use to thoughtfully improve your coaching when you’re back in your daily circumstances.  We use your real world situations and scenarios throughout the class allowing you to craft powerful ways to address the challenges you face.  You’ll also have many new things to try with your teams and you will probably depart with a few provocative ideas to chew on (in fact, maybe wrangle with for a while). All of these outcomes add up to your ability to become the excellent agile coach your teams need.

Audience
Coaching Agile Teams courses are meant for ScrumMasters, agile coaches and project managers in transition – people  who are ready to take the next step beyond practices and principles and move into activating teams to achieve the full promise of agile.

The courses are tailor-made for you if:

• You’ve had a few experiences as an agile coach and it just doesn’t seem to be working for you.
• Your job has become routine and you notice the teams seem to be going through the motions, too.
• Your teams get the practices and are doing well, but not getting the fabulous results you were supposed to get.
• Your are an awesome agile coach and you want the skills that will help you earn the Certified Scrum Coach designation.
• You are spread across many agile teams because your managers think agile coaching is not a full-time job.
• You are not sure if the agile coach role is really right for you.

Coaching Agile Teams: Course 1

• What is Agile Coaching? :: Why is it Important?
• The Being and the Doing of Agile Coaching
• Interlocking Roles: Agile Coach, Product Owner, Agile Manager
• When to Coach the Team, When to Coach Individuals
• Skills for Coaching Teams, Team Members, Product Owners, Managers, Stakeholders
• Coaching People Through Key Changes in their Role Transitions
• Setting the Environment for High Performance Teams
• Detecting and Solving Problems
• Starting up Great Teams :: Repairing Existing Teams
• Agile Coach Failure, Recovery and Success Modes

Coaching Agile Teams: Course 2

• Coaching Styles and When to Use Them
• Coaching that Moves Teams Beyond Cooperation and into Collaboration
• Getting Amazing Results through Silent Work Techniques
• Frameworks and Methods for Navigating Conflict on Teams
• Facilitating Team Events: Standing Meetings and Informal Conversations
• Mastering Yourself :: Preparing to Coach
• How do I Know when I Get There?
• Measuring Your Performance as an Agile Coach

Prerequisites
You must be a practicing agile coach with Certified Scrum Master or equivalent experience.  This is not an Introduction-level course and we will not be covering the basics of agile or Scrum.  In addition, you will be asked to use what you know about your real teams throughout the class so that you can leave with ideas for helping them as soon as you get back.

Past students say…

I recently completed the Coaching Agile Teams class in Boston. Lyssa did an excellent job presenting the material, facilitating the exercises, and creating a supportive and fun environment to learn and grow. Lyssa helped us tackle real-world problems and build our personal backlogs for continued learning after the class. I found the two-days very rewarding and have already applied techniques learned in the class with my team. I plan on taking the second part of this training. I highly recommend this class to Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches!
– Ryan Fullmer

Lyssa did a great job teaching an agile coaching class in Boston this week. She aligned the material to the class needs. She was able to address many real work issues presented by the class in her examples. Many of the techniques were demonstrated using interactive exercises that kept the class fun. I highly encourage SCRUM masters and coaches to take this class to learn/hone skills. I look forward to part 2!
– Karen Turner

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