Software Engineering :: Agile :: Courses :: Becoming an Agile Coach :: Introduction
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An Agile Coach's job is not to tell people how to do their job...
- The coach is also a teacher
- When acting as a teacher and guide you'll approach individuals, teams, and leaders with a servant mindset and openly share what you know about agile.
- As individuals and teams begin to embrace agile, your coach role shifts to one of mentoring.
- As a mentor, you'll help people build their individual roadmaps toward agility.
- You'll lead them toward the mindset and leadership they will need to successfully practice agile frameworks.
- You'll also need to be a detective or problem solver. In the role of problem solver, you're working with individuals and teams to understand what's going wrong on their personal or team agile journey.
- The hard part of being a problem solver is that you're not actually solving anything for the team.
- You're helping to facilitate them to finding the best solution for themselves. Sure, you can share ideas, but, you can't tell them what to do. They have to choose for themselves. When they do, the changes they implement will have immediate buy in.
- You're helping them get to high performance faster.
- You're also a mediator. Conflicts arise in teams, across teams, and across organizations. As an Agile Coach, you're also a mediator helping lead conflicting parties to mutually agreeable solutions.
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- Problem-solver
- Manager
- Mediator
- Mentor
What percentage of an Agile Coach's time is spent understanding agile frameworks and how to implement them?
- 40%
- 75%
- 20%
- 100%