Designing your own Agile Coaching Journey

Presented at DBS Meetup 13th Dec 2018

About This Workshop (90 min)

Whether you are a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Enterprise Coach, you are on a journey to expand your mind, build your skills, and increase your confidence. Let’s take a look at the design of this journey for mastery. What are the skills and competencies that you need? How do we practice and experience working with individuals and teams?

In this facilitated workshop, take a step towards designing your own Agile Coaching Journey with Kwok Chung and Michael.

Activities
- What is an Agile Coach?

- Real Life experience on our coaching journey
-- Sharing by Kwok Chung
-- Sharing by Michael

- Activity : Understanding our Competencies
- Activity 1-2-4-All : Designing your own Agile Coaching Journey

- Identify : Self Reflection (15 min)
-- What have I been through that I have empathy and authority to speak about?
-- What are the turning points that have shaped or shifted me?
-- What value can I bring to teams?

- Activity : Understanding our Competencies

Transcript

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2. Agenda for this evening
   Why Agile Coaching?
   Real Life experience on our coaching journey
   ● Sharing by Kwok Chung
   ● Sharing by Michael
   Designing your own Agile Coaching Journey
   ● What have I been through that I have empathy and authority to speak about?
   ● What are the turning points that have shaped or shifted me?
   ● What value can I bring to teams?
   Takeaways
   Understanding the mindset and role of the Agile Coach
   Target Audience
   Anyone working on an Agile project who aspires to be an Agile Coach.
   

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3. What is an Agile Coach?
   

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4. Why Agile Coaching?
   Change is hard
   Agile coaching is a craft intended to guide others in
   understanding, processing, and embracing constant
   change, so that the change is sustainable, lasting
   beyond the individuals.
   Credit : ICAgile https://icagile.com/Learning-Roadmap/Agile-Coaching
   

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5. Coaching behaviours
   Agile coaching involves different
   behaviours at different moments in a
   project.
   The Agile coach also uses and imparts
   skills for collaborative problem-
   solving and conflict negotiation.
   Coaching
   Facilitating
   Mentoring
   Teaching
   Credit : SoftEd https://www.softed.com/course/agile-coaching
   

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6. Different Goals, Different Approaches
   Credit : SoftEd https://www.softed.com/course/certified-agile-facilitation
   

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7. Calling for more advanced skills
   An Agile team facilitator calls on the
   Agile coach when a situation requires
   more advanced skills
   The Agile coach calls on the enterprise
   coach when his or her
   skills are not adequate to deal
   effectively with a situation
   Enterprise
   Agile
   Coach
   Agile
   Coach
   Agile Team
   Facilitator
   Credit : SoftEd https://www.softed.com/course/agile-coaching
   

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8. Our Experience
   

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9. Kwok Chung
   

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10. Michael
    

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11. Designing your own
    Agile Coaching Journey
    

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12. The Coaching Conversation
    Coaching conversations
    integrate coaching skills into a
    fluid process that moves
    people toward achieving their
    goals
    This is called a conversational
    arc and consists of:
    - Issue identification
    - Issue exploration
    - Committing to action
    Credit : SoftEd https://www.softed.com/course/agile-coaching
    

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13. Credit : Agile Coaching Competency Framework http://agilecoachinginstitute.com/agile-coaching-resources/
    Understanding our Competencies (30 min)
    

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14. Identify : Self
    Reflection (15 min)
    ● What have I been through that
    I have empathy and authority
    to speak about?
    ● What are the turning points that
    have shaped or shifted me?
    ● What value can I bring to
    teams?
    

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16. Explore : Find a
    new friend (5 min)
    ● Committed Speaker
    ● Committed Listener
    Share about yourself and get some
    ideas from each other about your
    possible future.
    

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17. Form a group of 4 with
    your new friend (10
    min)
    ● What are possible steps for
    helping each other on your
    Agile Coaching Journey?
    ● What might you commit to
    action after this evening ?
    

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18. Room Sharing
    Circles in the Sand by Denny Dyke. Photo taken on 3rd June 2018 during Pacific Coast Ride.
    

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19. Thank you for spending the evening with us!
    Yew Kwok Chung
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwokchung/
    Michael Ong
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelon9/
    

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20. Reflection on what
    you have learnt
    How do you feel ?
    What happened ?
    What did you learn ?
    What if ?
    What next ?
    

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