Discovering Your Inner Badass Agile Coach

Course Summary

Agile coaching is not for the faint of heart or the underskilled. One of the most critical aspects of coaching is your coaching presence, your coaching mindset, and your understanding of who you are as a coach on the inside.

This class is focused on improving and sharpening your inside-out coaching chops. It’s intended for you to discover your inner agile coach and embrace a bit of badassery to make you a better and more well-rounded coach.

We’ll use the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as our primary coaching framework. We’ll focus on several of the most crucial competencies within the Wheel, but we’ll spend even more time on Self-Mastery as your core competency.

About 40% of our time will be spent practicing.

This is a 1-day training & mentoring event hosted by Bob Galen and Peter Fischbach. Bob & Peter bring very different backgrounds to the class that will broaden your experiential learning.

The class is limited to 20 attendees, so Peter and Bob can give you the personal coaching and service you deserve.

The class would benefit Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Agile Leaders. Virtually anyone who is looking to learn and practice coaching skills.

Disclosure

This is a new class for us. It’s based on the ACGW, Bob’s Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching book, our extensive experience coaching agile leadership, and our overall coaching experience.

The point is, we’re not sure where it might go or what you might discover. However, we are sure you’ll leave it a more thoughtful and balanced coach from the inside out.

Course Outline

Day 1 – Agenda (3.5 hours)

• Introductions, setting the space, getting to know each other
• A quick overview of the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel.
• Exploring your Competencies (Comparative Agility PI)
• Exploring Self-Mastery canvas – Finding your mindset

Day 2 – Agenda (3.5 hours)

• Coaching Mindset, Arc, and Questions; Dancing, Sensing & Responding
• Dojo Practice: Coaching stance
• Dojo Practice: Mentoring & Modeling stance
• Dojo Practice: Advising stance
• Reflections from the Dojos
• Close

Where do you go from here in your Badass agile coaching journey?
Note: There will be ~2-4 hours of pre-work before the class that you must complete to hit the ground running in class.

Materials

We will make the following resources available to you—

Dropbox with class materials.
E-book copies of EBAC and Agile Reflections for Agile Coaches.
Mural collaboration outcomes that emerge from the class.
1-hour, 1:1 coaching session with either Peter or Bob to help you plan the next steps on your agile coaching learning & growth journey.

Pricing

Regular Pricing: $600

Bring a Friend: $900

Cancellation Policy

Registrations are non-refundable, but substitutions will be easily allowed with advance notice.

Your Course Facilitators

Bob Galen has held senior leadership roles within software development organizations since the early 1990s. Always a student of leadership, he’s been at the forefront as management and leadership techniques have moved toward “the team.” An early adopter of agile methods, Bob has had in-the-trenches experience building three successful agile technical organizations that have served as models of “agile done right.”

Currently, he is president of RGCG, a boutique agile coaching firm.

Bob has broad and deep experience leveraging Extreme Programming, Scrum, and Kanban, having been a practitioner since the late 1990s. In 2013, Bob became one of ~90 CEC-level coaches with the Scrum Alliance. He coaches cross-organizationally around the world in helping clients achieve improved performance.

Often called a “Coach of Agile Coaches,” Bob has included his deep and pragmatic leadership and agile experiences in this class. You’ll leave with the skills, knowledge, ideas, and tactics to accelerate your agile leadership journey.

Peter Fischbach is an executive Scrum coach located in Berlin, Germany. He has been working in agile environments for 20 years. With Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland, Peter teaches teams and executives in Germany. In 2019 Jeff nominated him as one of 12 Licensed Scrum Fellows, who are responsible for spreading his knowledge worldwide. Since 2015 he has worked with Jeff on Scrum@Scale, which is how agile organizations can be scaled.

Peter works with managers and executives in Scrum transitions in various industries, among others in software, banking, mobility, logistics, and science.

Peter is co-chairing the German Scrum Day, Germany’s oldest and largest Scrum conference within the Scrum Events network. Scrum Events established eduScrum Germany in 2016, where Peter is an active team member.