Master class “Coaching Agility”
Dates: 20-21 September (a two-day class)
Trainer: David Hussman
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This 2 day course is based on 10 years of coaching experience, guiding the adoption and adaption of agile methods in large and small companies around the world. The course is highly interactive and covers a wide range of material: building community, working with people, teaching practices, fostering transparency, growing collaboration and more. The course challenges participants to engage in one on one as well as group activities. DevJam has used this material to successfully established coaching and create coaches in companies and projects of all sizes and shapes in countries around the world.
Objectives (tools and techniques participants will learn)
- Coaching people and building strong delivery and feature teams
- Tools for selecting practices that quickly show value and grow value based agility
- Practices for growing and defining common vision
- Ideas for guiding product planning and product road mapping
- Creating collaborative and informative work spaces
- Leading and improving planning sessions
- Tools for guiding and growing agility in development (e.g. test driven)
- Ideas for promoting and maintaining continuous learning
- Using agile methods to promote value beyond one project or community
- A collection of indicators and monitors useful in promoting sustainable agility
This course is great for newly named coaches, certified scrum masters, managers, technical leads, or anyone who want to introduce or improve the use of agile methods.
David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agility as a delivery tool. His work includes helping companies of all sizes all over the world. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to invent, evolve and plan the delivery of all types of products and projects. David also spends a great deal of time helping leaders at all levels find ways to pragmatically use agility as another way to grow and innovate their business.
See the inteview with David on InfoQ…
Prior to working as a fulltime coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.
Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world. He has continuously publishes and has contributed to several books and many publications. He has helped create agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.
For more information, check out the DevJam website www.devjam.com.
The course is highly interactive and the material is a blend of presentation and workshop. All participants are challenged to leave the class with some idea of how they might coach a project community. After introducing some coaching basics, the course follows the path of a emerging project and the coaching that happens at before the first iterations, the coaching in the important early iterations, and the on-going coaching that fosters continuous learning and sustained agility. The intended audience is anyone who is using agile methods and want to coach others or coach continuous improvement.
Day One
- Introductions and Logistics
- Introductions
- Logistics and Groove
- Expectations
- Examples of What Takes to Coach
- Teaching agility, agile practices and lean ideas
- Guiding Communities: Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Coaching
- Servant leadership
- Coaching through story telling (building a coaching persona)
- Coaching Preproduction (helping people get ready to produce)
- Assessing readiness and tools for getting to know the community
- Chartering and other tools for building common vision and community
- Creative tools for product planning, mining real value and building strong backlogs
- Helping to create and establish informative and collaborative workspaces
- Pragmatic ideas for leading and guiding pragmatic planning
Day Two
- Coaching the Early Iterations (helping communities find a groove)
- Establishing a delivery cadence
- Growing transparency
- Investing in feedback
- Connecting with the delivery team
- Starting meaningful discussions
- Story telling as a coaching tool
- Tracking and doneness
- Fostering continuous improvement
- Sustaining Healthy and Productive Communities
- Dealing with change
- Evolving and adding practices
- Monitoring and promoting health
- Preserving the beginner’s mind
The rates (for two days for one person):
If you’re a conference attendee
- your rate is $300;
If you’re not a conference attendee:
- your rate is $350;
- register for the conference and get the reduced rate for the class.