Agile Coaching Workshop (ICP-ACC)

Course Code: 1502

$1795

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Overview

An Agile coach is responsible for enhancing client awareness of practice and behaviors, helping them realize the objectives which may otherwise be outside their reach. A coach enhances team practices to enable focus on business goals and objectives of the team as well as the organization. A coach’s responsibilities also include teaching, mentoring, problem solving, planning, leadership, team building and much more. This course designed to help participants understand and practice the core coaching competencies of an Agile coach, enabling them to succeed in their roles.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 3 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 3 days

What You'll learn

Understand the definition of Agile, and the set of competencies and practices associated with being a coach
How to develop ethical and professional coaching standards and agreements, and how to apply them in coaching engagements with teams and organizations
Understand the various roles, skillsets and disciplines of an Agile coach – coaching, facilitating mentoring, teaching and how to develop a ‘style’, moving in and out of these roles while remaining flexible, open and confident
Understand the philosophy behind servant leadership, practices and techniques to be a true servant leader – putting the needs of others first to facilitate the development of high performance teams
Explore the Agile Coach thinking – the mindset shift necessary to help you, and others, focus on team improvement, value-driven delivery and leveraging constraints while living in the present moment, staying curious, innovative and having fun
Learn ways to establish mutual trust enabling participants to create a safe, supportive environment in which the team can excel
Learn active listening and powerful questioning techniques utilized to leverage the ability to focus on what is being said and maximizing communication & collaboration through seeking and receiving information
Learn advanced techniques in planning and goal setting in order to help the team/organization achieve their goals and agreed-upon coaching results
Learn techniques for creating awareness and designing in actions and learning that would be helpful for managing progress and accountability within the team
Understand the usage of the Agile coaching competencies and practices framework – a framework for understanding and incorporating purpose, proficiency and practices into coaching engagements

Outline

Module 1: The Agile Coach

“Your” definition of Agile coaching
The Agile coaching mindset
Defining Agile team facilitation
Agile team facilitator behavior
Assessing one’s ability to serve the team
Responsibilities and skills of the coach
Achieving self-awareness/self-management in the coach
Developing more advanced Agile coaching skills
Setting boundaries for coaching
Internal vs. External coaches
Defining the coaching ‘contract’
Designing a coaching alliance

Module 2: The Coach as Facilitator

Facilitation and the Facilitator stance
Definition of Facilitation
The facilitation of meetings
Designing meetings for collaboration
Facilitating full participation and engagement
Facilitating collaboration
Facilitating team decision making

Module 3: The Coach as a Professional Coach

The coaching stance
Maintaining neutrality in coaching
Self-awareness and self-management
Holding the client’s agenda
Issue identification and exploration
Action commitment and achievement
Professional coaching skills

Module 4: The Coach as a Mentor

Mentoring and coaching the Agile roles
Mentoring and coaching transitions and practices
Understanding the individual change cycle
Identifying and handling resistance from individuals
Mentoring vs. coaching

Module 5: The Coach as a Teacher

Mentoring and coaching versus teaching
Teaching the Agile basics and mindset shift
Modes and methods of teaching
Distinguishing and articulating Agile frameworks

Module 6: The Team Coach

Understanding team development
Understanding a model of team development
Detecting a team’s stage of development
Helping a team move up the development curve
Setting up a team environment
Creating team trust
Learning shared leadership and self-organization
Continuously seeking to improve
Defining and identifying high performance
Knowing and establishing team vs. group mindset/behaviors
Understanding the strategies for dealing with different types of teams
Understanding your role in the self-organizing team
Handling conflict and dysfunction within the team
Identifying and managing ‘Group Think’
Handling organizational impediments
Promoting leadership engagement

Prerequisites

This is an intermediate/advanced level workshop. Participants should have completed basic Agile training, such as, an ICAgile accredited Agile Fundamentals course, a Certified Scrum Master course or equivalent, or have completed 6 to 12 months of working with Agile teams.

Who Should Attend

The course is highly recommended for –

Project and program professionals who aspire to take on the role of an Agile coach
Experienced Scrum Masters, Agile project/program managers or Iteration managers who want a more comprehensive understanding of the complete range of business and Agile coaching skills
Agile coaches who want to enhance and improve their professional skills as Agilists and professional coaches
Coaches who wish to increase the ability to breakthrough seemingly insurmountable problems with their teams
Agile managers, Product Owners and others wishing to access a broader range of skills in working with teams
Skilled coaches who wish to polish their skills and learn a few new tricks and techniques
Functional managers or Scrum Masters with some experience as an Agile coach, but Agile seems like it is not working for your teams
Someone trying to become a Certified Scrum Coach or ICAgile Certified Expert in Agile Coaching
Someone coaching or mentoring Agile teams, but you seem to be caught in a rut or just going through the motions and not making progress