Agile Alliance 2017: Tired of learning your Coaching craft by trial and luck? Many of us begin and emerge as coaches through kismet and fortune, rather than with clear goals for learning and acceptance criteria for progressing in the craft. Instead, why not apply Agile techniques and use Inspect and Adapt to groom a path to guide your learning as an Agile Coach? In this interactive session, you won’t merely sit and listen; you’ll learn both WITH and FROM other participants. We’ll start by building a learning ‘backlog’ for coaches. Through 3 brief scenarios of increasing complexity, self-organized table-teams will examine what a coach would need to learn in order to be prepared to thrive in that stage. With each scenario, we’ll hold a group ‘demo’ of the topics, techniques, skills and resources for a coach’s learning at that stage.

1. SHU HA RI:
CREATING YOUR COACHING JOURNEY
1
“Curved Paths” by Zhao ! is licensed under CC BY

2. WARM UP
Think and Ink
2“More sticky notes” by elitatt is licensed under CC BY

3. CREATE 2 STICKIES:
1 thing you
Already Have Learned
1 thing you
Want to Learn
about growing
as an Agile Coach
3
“Post-it Concept Wall” by Jennifer Morrow is licensed under CC BY

4. 90 SECONDS: MEET SOMEONE NEW
4“DOA SPEED DATING - ASC 2009” by Florida Supercon is licensed under CC BY

5. 5
“Wikimedia Hackathon 2013 Amsterdam” by Sebastiaan ter Burg is licensed under CC BY
RETURN TO YOUR TABLES
SHARE TOPICS YOU DISCOVERED

6. 6

7. 7
Bernie Maloney, CSP
PE, CSM, CSPO
Agile Coach
Accelerating Genius
Turning Strategies into Results
From Startup to Beyond $100M

8. PROGRESSION: SHU – HA – RI
8
“Llanberis 0743” by Denis Egan is licensed under CC BY
SHU Learn Crawl
HA Bend Walk
RI Transcend Run

9. 9
“#begin” by justin wilson is licensed under CC BY
Crawling

10. EXERCISE
100 person, co located organization:
• What resources would you engage?
• Through what initial stages (or backlog
items) might you need to guide the
organization?
10
“In the beginning” by Alexander Baxevanis is licensed under CC BY

11. 11
“Debriefing” by tash lampard is licensed under CC BY
DEBRIEF

12. 12
“Go” by Michael Duxbury is licensed under CC BY
Walking

13. EXERCISE
What are ~5 topics in Agile:
• You likely will need to
routinely cover?
(regular newbie questions)
• You wish that
Organizations / Teams
were ready to cover
because that would
accelerate progress?
13
“walking” by David McDermott is licensed under CC BY

14. 14
“Debriefing” by tash lampard is licensed under CC BY
DEBRIEF

15. 15
“sprinter” by Frankt is licensed under CC BY
Running

16. EXERCISE
• What pains does Agile raise
for leaders / executives?
• What skills or experience will
you need to coach them?
• What might you leverage for
distributed teams?
• What tips from experience
can you offer to others?
16
“Running fast” by Peter Krantz is licensed under CC BY

17. 17
“Debriefing” by tash lampard is licensed under CC BY
DEBRIEF

18. 18
“Dog Food 2” by Sh4rp_i is licensed under CC BY

19. 19
“Champagne Pour” by Didriks is licensed under CC BY

20. COACHING CIRCLE
• Who?
Gather peers
• Where? When?
Colocation, Skype,
Conference Call
• How?
What about
Lean Coffee? Trello?
20
“Table of Champagne” by L.C. Nøttaasen is licensed under CC BY

21. 22
COACHING CIRCLE
Interested?: bit.ly/SHRAgileCoachingCircle

22. RESOURCES:
• Venue
–Skype https://www.skype.com
–Voice https://www.freeconferencecall.com
• Structure
–Lean Coffee http://leancoffee.org/
–Trello https://trello.com/
–Dotstorming https://dotstorming.com/
23

23. 24
“path1 near Folsom Lake, Calif.” by Vince is licensed under CC BY
Run Gather your Tribe
Walk Build a Backlog
Crawl Be Intentional

24. 25“Takeaway” by Jeremy Segrott is licensed under CC BY

25. 26
DOING AGILE APPEARS EASY

26. 27
DOING AGILE APPEARS EASY.
BEING AGILE TAKES DISCIPLINE
& COURAGE.
Bernie Maloney

27. @berniemaloney 28
Bernie Maloney, CSP
PE, CSM, CSPO
Agile Coach
Accelerating Genius
Turning Strategies into Results
From Startup to Beyond $100M
bit.ly/speedmygenius
@berniemaloney
linkedin.com/in/berniemaloney

28. FIN
Ut Prosim. Namaste.
@berniemaloney 29