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Agile Coach: Big ‘C’ Coach or little ‘c’ coach
Posted on August 23, 2019 2 Comments

Agile Coach is such an overloaded term. It means different things to different people. First, there’s different expectations by different people on what they need from an agile coach. Secondly, different agile coaches have different backgrounds and experiences. It is these experiences that shape who we are and what we bring to our coaching. There […]
LAST Conference 2019 – 3 Ways to Become More Self-Aware
Posted on July 30, 2019 Leave a Comment

Here are the slides from my LAST Conference Talk today. Self-awareness is about learning to observe yourself not only through your own eyes but through others people’s eyes too. When you are self-aware, you know your strengths and weaknesses and how to manage them in the workplace. The talk introduces a model for developing self-awareness […]
1st Conference 2015 – Evoking Excellence Through Agile Coaching
Posted on July 11, 2016 Leave a Comment
The presentation I delivered last year at 1st Conference 2015 titled “Evoking Excellence Through Agile Coaching” is available on Slideshare.
Training to become an Agile Coach?
Posted on December 9, 2010 5 Comments
[Edited: Updated links 28 Feb 2011] Today I received an interesting question – “What training is there to develop agile coaches as output of the training?” The goal of an Agile coach is grow a productive Agile team that thinks for itself rather than relying on someone to prescribe the way to do things. Showing […]
The issue with Scrum Certifications
Posted on November 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
Ron Jeffries has posted a nice article on CSM Certification Thoughts containing several excellent diagrams describing some of the forces that are in play when it comes to Scrum certifications (or any other Agile certification for that matter). There are both positive and negative opinions of CSM Certification in the industry. In my view, a […]
There is no ‘Best Practice’ in Agile
Posted on March 22, 2010 3 Comments
Joe Townsend has written an article along the lines what I have been saying for a while now – in Agile there is no ‘best practice’, and as Townsend puts it What works for you, your team, division, corporation, etc. can bring another person, team, etc. to a screeching halt. In particular, one needs to […]