Sharpen your saw - How to improve as agile coach
Add to calendarAs an agile coach you’re helping your clients to improve and to establish agile practices, principles and values. But how do you improve and reflect? What are your acceptance tests? How do you measure your personal development? What are indicators for being totally wrong? How do you keep the balance between pragmatism and dogmatism?
If you have similar questions, we will provide a World Café setting for you to exchange experiences, answers and even more questions with other participants. At the end of the workshop you should definitely have new ideas to sharpen your “coaching saw”.
Co-Organizer: Jens Coldewey
Structure of the workshop
- 5 minutes introduction
- 3 x 20 minutes of World Café
- 25 minutes presentation of the World Café tables and summarizing the results
- 5 minutes closing & retrospective
Experience of workshop leaders
We’ve facilitated two World Cafés until now. One during the XP Days Germany 2009 with roughly 60 participants. Another one as part of a Lessons Learned workshop with 20 participants. Both World Cafés have been appreciated by the participants. Furthermore We’ve initiated two Open Space Sessions about “Retrospecting yourself as a coach” at the Agile Conference 2009 in Chicago and again at the XP Days Germany 2009. Both sessions went very well and we are confident that topic and format are fitting very well together.
Links
- New ideas how you could improve as agile coach
- Personal contact with other agile coaches that struggle with similar questions, but maybe have different answers
- An overview of possible measures for improvement as agile coach