Podcast – The State of Agile Coaching and the Competencies Coaches Need to Build

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lyssa Adkins and Halim Dunsky about the current state of agile coaching, the competencies and skills that coaches need to develop and the journey that the Agile Coaching Institute has taken since they became part of Accenture

Why listen to this podcast:
• The wide range of approaches which exist in agile coaching, while remaining aligned with common learning objectives
• There is a marked difference between people who have put in the effort to build deep and wide coaching competency and those who have not done so, and organisation are becoming more discerning about who they engage in the coaching role
• Key competencies for effective coaching are about the ability to reach people on a human-to-human level
• There shouldn’t be a distinction between the scrummaster and agile coach roles – scrummasters should be coaches
• Even the most experienced and knowledgeable coaches can and do fall prey to human system dynamics and make mistakes

Hosted by InfoQ

L. Adkins and H. Dunsky on the State of Agile Coaching and the Competencies Coaches Need to Build

About the Author: lyssaadkins

I believe that Agile is a brilliant, emergent response to help us thrive in our ever-increasingly complex, changeable and interconnected world. My current focus is coaching Leadership Teams to take up the Agile transformation that is theirs to do -- on both a personal and group level. 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. In 2010, I authored Coaching Agile Teams which has sold 75,000+ and been translated into 10 languages.