Agile Coaching refers to a process in which an Agile Coach works closely together with an organization to improve the organization’s product development agility. This coaching may be undertaken broadly in four levels. These levels include Individual coaching, Strategic Organizational Based Coaching, Agile Team Based Coaching and Technical Process Based Coaching.
Objective
The terminal objective of agile team coaching is to help the team understand and regularly implement correct agile project management concepts, and as a result, self-manage better. This often also includes coaching the Scrum Master so that he/she can keep coaching the team in the future on their own. The coaching sessions will be based on addressing inherent contextual issues faced by the team on a day to day basis.
Key Focus Areas
Team responsibilities with self-managing teams
Facilitation of Agile Projects
Improving the team’s decision making and conflict resolution
Transparency in the team
Making organizational impediments visible
Improving the relationship between the Team and the Product Owner
Product Ownership (of both the team, the PO, and other stakeholders)
Role and contribution of the team’s management
Improve Scrum practices (and technical practices)
Expected Outcomes
From the proposed coaching sessions, it is expected that the teams will be able to improve their self-management skills, in terms of being able to:
Agile Team Based Coaching
Facilitate scrum events
Create working agreements
Enhance quality of one on one discussions
Define and measure agile success and maturity
Develop appropriate project vision statements
Develop appropriate epics, personas and user stories
Define and estimate tasks accurately
Conduct meetings required based on best practices
Technical Process Based Coaching
Develop continuous integration and continuous delivery capability
Undertake acceptance test driven development
Discover code / design smells
Write unit tests based on agile practices
Refactor “smells” into clean code
Undertake test driven development
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The following are the results of a 2015 State of Scrum Survey complied using responses from 4,452 organizations on the implementation of Agile Processes
Scrum Improves Quality of Work Life87%
Use Scrum Artifacts Intensively56%
Believe that Agile Processes has improved their organization81%
Most common challenge is transitioning from waterfall based methods62%