This document discusses focused agile coaching. It encourages coaches to develop a clear vision and plan for their coaching work. It discusses establishing a coaching product and techniques like helping teams adopt Scrum from zero. The document also discusses starting coaching where teams currently are and focusing on key areas like business involvement, teamwork, and engineering processes. It provides exercises for coaches to navigate these areas and dream big with the teams they support. Finally, it discusses coaching skills and an Agile Coaching Canvas tool to help plan coaching sessions.

1. FOCUSED AGILE COACHING
Think, build and share your
coaching vision and plans
Alexey Krivitsky

2. Alexey krivitsky
Cer$fied Scrum Trainer (CST)
Cer$fied Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Prac$$oner
Developer (Java, .NET, RoR)
ScrumMaster
Agile Coach
Scrum Trainer
www.agiletrainings.eu/blog/

3. www.focusedagilecoaching.com

6. Part 1 WHY BIG VISIONS

7. What is your product?
Product Techniques

8. Vision

9. Zero to Scrum
Product
Team around work
Pull for Technical Excellence (initial DoD)
Coaching delivery
...

10. Further
Improvements
Further
Improvements
Maturity Model
Scrum Adoption Dynamics
Ceremonial
Scrum
Emerging self-
organization.
Team starts
owning the
process
True self-
organization.
Further
Improvements
are now possible
“DO AGILE” “BE AGILE”
Too many
problems!

11. “We’re not there yet…
This image is describing how we work now and where we want to go...”

12. ScrumMaster is …
“Chief impediment remover”
“Master of ceremonies”
…
Administrator
Secretary
Nanny
An overhead person

13. Eliminate Waste
You’ll be lean’ed
“Dead ScrumMaster
is useless ScrumMaster.”

14. Time-box yourself

15. Part 2 WHERE TO START?

16. Different Doors to Agile
Technical excellence (XP way, Clean Code)
Team collaboration coaching (Scrum)
Customers (Story mapping, Lean UX, BDD)
Systemic view (Kanban, Scaled frameworks)

17. Start with what you have

19. Focusing Areas
Business and customer involvement Teamwork and team health
Engineering and release processOrg evolution and maturity
NAVIGATING

20. Exercise
Navigating The Four Focusing Areas
Look into each of the areas.
1. Which ones requires your immediate attention?
– Remember and tell a real-life story illustrating that
2. Which area has the most potential?
3. How does the areas affect and influence each other?
4. Which area can be used as a lever?

21. Part 3 DREAM ON

22. DEMO TIME

23. VISIONING
SIGNSDREAMS BENEFITS
Dreaming big

24. Coaching 101
Be curious. Really. As much as you can.
Make it artificial. Fake it. Play it.
Focus on the person.
Let your curiosity guide you asking questions.

25. Exercise:
Coach dreaming and visioning

26. Part 4 THINK YOUR JOURNEY

27. SKILLS
DETAILING
SUPPORT COACHINGTEACHING
MENTORINGFACILITATING
Detailing the path

28. Exercise:
Coach for action items

29. Part 5 WRAP UP

30. Agile Coaching Canvas
a multi-purpose tool
Self-coaching
1:1 coaching dialogs
- peer coaching
- manager - coach
Team activity (collective dreaming sessions)

31. Agile Coaching Canvas
a multi-purpose tool
Download materials at www.focusedagilecoaching.com