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Hiring (or Growing) the Right Agile Coach

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Lyssa Adkins @lyssaadkins

!Michael K. Spayd

@mspayd

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What’s the Problem?“When I hire an agile coach, I don’t know what I’m getting. Everyone calls themselves a coach.”

“My company doesn’t see agile coaching as a serious role but the situations agile puts me in feel serious. I don’t always know how to deal with them.”

“I know agile like the back of my hand, but I run into some clients who just don’t seem to get it. How can I help them get it?”

“I have an agile coach, but I’m not sure what they’re supposed to do. What good are they?”

Lyssa & Michael

project & program manager  Project Mgmt Office director  Project Mgmt Professional  Six Sigma Green Belt

CST & CSC  Co-Active Coach  Cer%fied  Org & Relationship

Systems Coach

Organizational change coach  Process re-engineer  Cert. Prof. Facilitator  Masters in Psychology

Agile transformation coach  Certified Org & Relationship Systems Coach  Coaching the Agile Enterprise (in progress)

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An Agile Coach is...

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Levels of Agile Coaching

Develops leaders, focuses on

culture, catalyzes change

Develops teams, mentors others, advises

managers

Facilitates practices and collaboration on one or a few

teams

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Facilitating

Professional Coaching

Mentoring

Teaching

Agile-Lean Practitioner

Agile Coaching Competency Framework is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Agile Coaching Competency Framework

Technical

Business

Transformation

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Facilitating

Professional Coaching

Mentoring

Teaching

Agile-Lean Practitioner

Agile Coaching Competency Framework is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Lyssa’s “truth in advertising” Profile

Technical

Business

Transformation

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How might you use this

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Developing One’s Self as

an Agile Coach

Application:

© 2013 Agile Coaching Institute �10Paul Tevis - @ptevis

Also on YouTube: http://bit.ly/12YAgbO

Paul Develops & Lands an Agile Coaching Role

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Hiring and Developing

Agile Coaches

Application:

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Angel Hires an Agile Coach

Angel Diaz - @adiazmarotoAlso on YouTube: http://bit.ly/11KCj0m

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Facilitating

Professional Coaching

Mentoring

Teaching

Agile-Lean Practitioner

Agile Coaching Competency Framework is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

How much of each of these do you need in your next coach?

Technical

Business

Transformation

Manager:

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Facilitating

Professional Coaching

Mentoring

Teaching

Agile-Lean Practitioner

Agile Coaching Competency Framework is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Technical

Business

Transformation

How much of each of these do you currently have?

Coach:

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Helping Communities

of Agile Coaches Grow

Application:

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From Angel Diaz, agile coach in Spain

Agilists get together in User

Group meetings to learn and explore the Framework.

© 2013 Agile Coaching Institute �17Erin Beierwaltes - @CoachatPlay

Full 4 minute video on YouTube: http://bit.ly/13YoAjg

Erin Helps Grow her Agile Coaching Community

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MentorinG

TRaining

CERTIFICATION

Many Pathways.... to help you develop agile coaching skill within yourself or your organization

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Agile Coaching Learning Objectives (LOs)

Agile Team Facilitator

Agile Coach

Enterprise Agile Coach

For detail, see ICAgile.com. These learning objectives are Creative Commons and meant to be used by everyone: individuals, other certification organizations and training companies.

~24 LOs in these areas:

- Mindset & Role of Agile Team Facil. - Facilitation Tools & Techniques - Facilitating the Agile Practices

~40 LOs in these areas:

- Agile Coaching Roles & Mindsets - Coaching Skills and Conversations - Mentoring Agile Roles, Practices, etc - Teaching Agile Basics & Mindset Shifts - Agile Coach as Professional - Teams: Start up, Growth, Conflict, Health

~40 LOs in these areas:

- Enterprise Agile Coaching: Skills/Scope - Organizational Systems & Processes - Organizational Leadership & Culture - Org Change & Agile Transformation - Business & Enterprise Agility

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Where do I go next?

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}Resources at AgileCoachingInstitute.com !

}ICAgile.com: see details about the Learning Objectives for self-study or to find courses

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More videos on YouTube !

Search “Agile Coaching Framework” or go to the lyssaadkins Channel

Alistair Sloley

Erin Beierwaltes

Paul Tevis

Kevin CallahanAngel Diaz

Learn more: AgileCoachingInstitute.com

“We develop great agile coaches.”

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Training !

Coaching/Mentoring !

Breakthrough Coaching

Coaching the Agile Enterprise