Facilitating Participatory Decision-Making Part 1
I have to admit, I always thought I understood exactly what Participatory Decision-Making (PDM) meant. I also prided myself on my facilitation skills - on dot voting, silent writing, fist of…
Help Your Agile Team Overcome Learned Helplessness
Learned HelplessnessThere is a well-established process for domesticating young elephants that demonstrates the process of learned helplessness everywhere including organizations and agile teams. When elephants are young they are secured…
12 Productivity Hacks for Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches
Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches need to stay on top of their game. Your job is about helping others to succeed. Use these 12 productivity hacks to keep yourself grounded and…
How to Spot a Bad Agile Coach
I've written about agile coaching before including what makes an agile coach effective and the top 10 traits of an agile coach. This article is about bad agile coaching and…
Agile Coaching Resources
Being an Agile Coach or a Scrum Master is challenging! We've created this page of agile coaching resources to help you to grow to become more skillful, and improve the…
Don’t Ignore Your Agile Coach
Have you hired an Agile Coach and then ignored their coaching or let them hang out to dry? This post is about the value of an Agile Coach to support…
Challenges with Agile – Organizations that Don’t Want to Change
Challenges with Agile and Scrum Do You feel like you are coaching uphill? Do you feel like the challenges with agile adoption are overwhelming you, and that you are alone…
What NOT to do as an Agile Coach
Earlier this year I provided some good agile coach tips in my post, What makes an Agile Coach Effective. I talked about how agile coaches won't succeed if people aren't…
What Makes an Agile Coach Effective
I’ve been giving a lot of thought about what makes an Agile coach effective and how to improve my own effectiveness as a coach. Many or most of us probably…
What are the Most Important Agile Coach Traits?
What are the top Agile Coach traits that great coaches should have? Today there are more and more individuals hanging out a shingle and calling themselves Agile Coaches. And there…
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