Agile #NoManagers – Attitudes, Baggage, Sadne [...]
I attended a training session just last week related to Scaling Scrum with Scrum.org’s the Nexus. It was an interesting framework and approach that I’ll write about later. I [...]
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Category: Agile Coaching
Is “It Depends” an Acceptable Answer?
I was in an agile class last week trying to learn another agile scaling framework. Something happened that really bothered me. And, if you’v [...]
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To Coach or not to Coach
I was inspired for this article by the same titled blog post from Simon Nadav Cohen that you can find here: https://labs.spotify.com/2016/05/1 [...]
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Qualities of Great Agile Coaches
I stumbled on a blog by someone I hadn’t heard before. His name is Tanner Wortham and the blog is Spikes & Stories. Here’s the link to the post: http [...]
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Agile Coaches – Extinction Event?
For years as I’ve been getting older, I often refer to myself as a “Dinosaur”. It’s not a bad analogy, as I’m getting quite old in the tooth. I’m certainly not as [...]
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Agile Coaching Canvas
I hate to admit it, but I’m a relatively ad-hoc agile coach. I don’t use a lot of frameworks or tools. I mean I have a few that are well used and well worn, but I don’t [...]
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Scrum Alliance - Coaches Retreat: Coaching-the [...]
I’m a volunteer for the Scrum Alliance helping to facilitate Global Coaching Retreats. The retreats are for anyone who currently does or is [...]
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Are you Happy?
In several previous posts, The Essence of Agile Metrics: http://rgalen.com/agile-training-news/2012/6/2/the-agile-project-managerthe-essence-o [...]
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Let’s Focus on “Inside Out” Agile Transfo [...]
I used to think that there were basically three forms of agile transformation. They were and [...]
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What’s your incentive to be “Agile”?
I once worked as a coach at a large financial firm that had been “going Agile” for quite awhile. They were one of the worlds largest firms, so the teams and the projects [...]
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