The document provides 20 coaching tips from an agile coach's "agile suitcase" including using pair coaching, storytelling, check-ins, asking for help from the community, using timeboxes and agile games, trusting people by design, showing honesty, sharing past failures, limiting work in progress, prioritizing features, using feature teams, discussing books in a book club, and drawing energy from family. The coach emphasizes the importance of support from their partner in being able to do their work.

1. 20 coaching tips in
my agile suitcase

2. 20 coaching tips in
my agile suitcase

3. 20 coaching tips in
my agile suitcase

4. PairCoaching
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5. PairCoaching
I’m a big believer of Pairwork. I deliver my
workshops with a partner. It could be an
internal one at your company, an industry
leader or someone I want to give more
visibility....
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6. Story telling
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7. Story telling
Story telling is one of my
favorite coaching tools. I
talk about my previous
teams, about stories my
friends told me, about agile
7 successes and agile failures.

8. Check in

9. Check in
I use checkin: in person, by
e-mail, skype . In a
retrospective or a F2F...

10. Check in
I’m MAD because I have not
heared my kids today.

11. Check in
I’m GLAD because I am
asked to present my agile
suitcase.

12. Check in
I’m SAD because Vera
Peeters was only briefly at
#XPDays.

13. Check in
I’m AFRAID because of
current economy and I still
look for a new client in
January

14. Ask for help

15. Ask for help
I use a lot of questions. And
asking for help is one of my
favorite ones...

16. community

17. community
And I also ask a lot of help
from the community. Both
local and international.

18. It’s easier to ask
for forgiveness
then to beg for
permission
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19. It’s easier to ask
for forgiveness
then to beg for
permission
Another tool I use is do
things without asking for
19 permissions.

20. It’s easier to ask
for forgiveness
then to beg for
permission
I’m not saying ignore all the
rules. Yet when you can fix
20 anything, do it...

21. Agile Games

22. Agile Games
Thanks to Vera Peeters & Pascal Van
Cauwenberghe I learned that games are
the best way to experience agile in a
safe environment

23. The POWER
of the junior
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24. The POWER
of the junior
As a coach with a new team I am always
the junior on the team. This gives me
the chance to ask the questions that
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seniors are to afraid to ask...

25. Visual management

26. Visual management
@ xquesada teached me the gory
details of Visual Managment to make
problems visible

27. Timeboxes

28. Timeboxes
I bring hourglasses to all my clients.
One company reduced their board
meetings in half, by using them.

29. Books & Extra kindle

30. Books & Extra kindle
Just as I brought 110 books to Xpdays. I
offer books to the people I coach.

31. Books & Extra kindle
Oh and if you took my 2 books. Please
send me an e-mail.

32. Bookclub

33. Bookclub
Not just books, one of the best ways to learn
something is to discuss a book with a team. Using
the pattern language for study groups.
http://www.industriallogic.com/papers/khdraft.pdf

34. 34
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35. I trust everyone by design. For me trust is given not
earned. I even trust middle-management that they
want to do a good job. If I would not I would not be
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35 able to help a company by coaching.

36. honesty
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37. honesty
I don’t lie to people. I show them reality. When
Joppe feels this is high, I tell him yes, I see you are
scared. I know it’s high for you. And that’s ok. I think
it will be ok, yet it’s ok to be scared.
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38. failures in my life
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39. failures in my life
I bring my failures or experience with me. This is a
picture of the house I burned down when I was 19.
Ask me in the bar, why this was for 10 years the best
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thing that happened to me.

40. WIP limits
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41. WIP limits
By limiting the number of things we work on, we can
do more.
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42. Prioritisation
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43. Prioritisation
Just like my grandparents had to
focus on prioritisations, so do I as a
43 coach. I can help 17 people, just not
all at the same time...

44. Feature teams
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45. Feature teams
Start-up’s have by design only a feature team.
Feature teams solve so many problems that large
45 coorporations are struggling with.

46. My kids
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47. My kids
My kids give me so much joy and energy. I use them
in my storytelling and I learn something from them
47 every week. That’s why they are in my agile suitcase.

48. love of my life
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49. love of my life
Without the support and
love from Els, I would not
be able to do anything I do
now.
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50. love of my life
Thanks to her I am a better
person now, then I was 16
years ago.
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51. love of my life
I’m glad she asked me to
marry her.
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