Agile Coaching Competencies

This whitepaper, written in 2011 by Michael K. Spayd and myself, begins as so:

“Getting good results with Agile is relatively easy: form a cross-functional team, prioritize backlog items, create shippable product each iteration. Basically, follow the process and your team is likely to deliver value. No surprise here. Getting truly great results, especially consistently, is a bit more rare.

Great results require a great team. And great teams rarely just happen. A team aspiring towards greatness often needs a coach: trained, experienced, competent in her craft.

Ah, there’s the rub! How do we create good (even great) Agile Coaches? We maintain that, as an industry we do not know how.”

Since it was written in 2011, we have certainly learned a lot more about the “how” that was just coming into focus then. And still, this seminal work remains one of the primary sources of the profession of agile coaching.

ps. We never wrote the “part 2” that is referenced.

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About the Author: lyssaadkins

I focus on improving the performance of organizational leaders to solve the challenges they face today while expanding their capacities to be more fit for the challenges right around the corner. I do this through skillful professional and organizational systems coaching. For many years I have been a passionate contributor to the discipline and profession of Agile Coaching and have trained many thousands of agilists in the knowledge, skills, and mindsets needed to coach teams and organizations to get full benefits of Agile. I authored Coaching Agile Teams which has sold 80,000+ and been translated into more than a dozen languages.