What is coaching in Agile?

WHAT IS COACHING IN AGILE?

GUEST SPEAKER:

NENAD STANIĆ-KENOVA
TEAM COACHING INTERNATIONAL

MODERATOR:

JOVAN VIDIĆAGILE PRACTITIONER

PRESENTATION LANGUAGE:

SERBIAN

An agile coach works with software development teams to help improve their effectiveness and get the benefits of applying agile principles to their work. But it is not surprising that people to get confused about what agile coaching is because the term coaching is used widely in non-software contexts, both in sports and business. "Being a consultant, and adding ‘Agile’ in front of the term doesn't magically make one a coach. There is more to it than that."

The first value of the Agile Manifesto [1] is "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools." Skills from traditional coaching can help you work with individual members of a team, to clarify personal goals and actions to achieve them. However, teamwork is at the heart of the agile development. As agile coaches, we work towards creating a focused team rather than a bunch of individuals following their own paths so we need more than life-coaching skills.

Coaches in sports team,share a similar focus: building a team that performs effectively. These sports coaches require a deep knowledge of their sport and are often former players. They work on skills, tactics, and motivation. An agile coach wants to help teams with the same things but techniques for building up physical sports skills don't really transfer into the world of software development.

One of agile coach's domain is team collaboration and how the work is organized to create a steady stream of valuable working software. You need experience in agile software development to do this well. Then you need to learn about how to coach teams.

Nenad Stanić - Kenova is team coach train by Team coaching International & member of ICF -International Coaching federation will talk and exchange ideas with us how traditional coaching tools can be used in Agile team environment.