What does a Scrum Master do all day? Run events and facilitate meetings? The Scrum Master role has evolved greatly over the last 20 years and now encompasses leadership, coaching, and growing agility through Scrum.
To be effective, agile coaches require deep, applied expertise and experience across multiple organisations, multiple projects and industries. As the organsiation scales, the Agile Coaching Development Pathway shows the focus of the role as it scales to more responsibilities beyond being a coach of a single team and provides guidance on what knowledge and experience is required to be an Enterprise Coach.
Sharing patterns and practices and driving consistency across the organisation is key to building an organsiationational capability however eventually when we as external consultanst leave, there is always the risk that the organisation will just spring back to their old ways of working. So we set up ZXM Agile Academy to build enduring internal capability.
Running remote PI planning for the first time 100% virtual was a bit daunting a few weeks ago when the reality set in that with the current crisis, this was now our reality. We prepared, thought through worse case scenarios and had back up plans and felt eerily calm as the day began. It was a great success and here are our tips.
If your an agile coach, just knowing Agile, or Scrum, or how to set up a Kanban board won’t be enough to get you though the complexities involved in successfully performing the role and being an agile leader. Seek to expand your knowledge and capabilities and practice intentionally as part of your own continuous improvement.
In the face of disruptive change, the ability for executives to mobilise action is paramount. While self-organisation is a key enabler, how do you support and encourage teams to organise themselves without micromanaging them solving every impediment for them?
As more and more staff are adjusting towards working remotely, Executives and their programs and teams will need additional support to enable them to maintain productivity, to stay connected and engaged to deliver critical outcomes. Here’s how to address these challenges.
How do you get the most from your agile coaching investment? As more and more organisations build agility into their operating models, they’re realising the benefits of expert agile coaching to help drive and support agile adoption and improvement. Creating and supporting alignment across agile coaches is key to reap the rewards that agile ways of working can bring.
There are a lot of misconceptions about what an Agile Coach is or isn’t at the moment. Are they the Scrum Master of a team? Does their role include coaching the team or is is something more?
To truly drive cultural and behavioural change takes time. It also takes experience. He’s what effective agile coaches do every Sprint. The list might surprise you.
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