This document outlines the development path for agile coaching, detailing essential competencies such as mentoring, teaching, coaching, and facilitation. It describes various coaching roles and levels, including agile team facilitator, team coach, and enterprise coach, each with specific skills required for effectively enabling team collaboration and organizational transformation. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of advanced skills in lean-agile methodologies and domain-specific knowledge for successful agile coaching.

1. DEVELOPMENT
PATH FOR AGILE
COACHING

2. AGILE COACH
COMPETENCIES MODEL
This Presentation is
based on the "Agile
Coach Competencies
Model".
The slides are
extension of this
model.

3. Path to Become an Agile Coach
FOUNDATION SKILLS
FOR AGILE COACHES
ADVANCED SKILLS
FOR AGILE COACHES
AGILE COACHING
ROLES & LEVELS
MENTORING
TEACHING
PROFESSIONAL COACHING
FACILITATING
TECHNICAL MASTERY
BUSINESS MASTERY
TRANSFORMATION MASTERY
AGILE TEAM FACILITATOR
TEAM COACH
ENTERPRISE COACH

4. AGILE COACHING
COMPETENCIES
EVERY AGILE COACH NEEDS 4 FOUNDATION SKILLS - MENTORING,
TEACHING, COACHING AND FACILITATION.
MENTORING: HELPS IN DEVELOPING NEW SKILLS IN THE TEAM. IT IS MAINLY
RELATED TO ADVISING TEAM
MEMBERS FOR SKILLS TO DEVELOP.
TEACHING: TRAIN PEOPLE ON AGILE FRAMEWORKS & PRACTICES
TEACHING COACHINGMENTORING FACILITATING

5. AGILE COACHING
COMPETENCIES
FACILITATING: MAKE A GROUP OF PEOPLE TO BRING THEIR THOUGHTS FORWARD BY
CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE AND
COLLABORATIVE MEETINGS
COACHING: FACILITATES AND HELPS PEOPLE TO THINK IN SOLVING THEIR PROBLEMS
THEMSELVES, HERE THE COACH DOES NOT GIVE THE SOLUTION.
AS A COACH, YOU SEE THAT DEPENDING ON SITUATIONS, BEST TEAM PERFORMANCE
COMES WHEN YOU APPLY
THESE SKILLS ALL AT ONCE.
TEACHING COACHINGMENTORING FACILITATING

6. MENTORING & TEACHING
AGILE COACHING TYPES
REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBJECT
NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF
THE TEAM/TEAM MEMBERS
RESPONSIBLE FOR GUIDING AND TEACHING THE TEAM AND
SUPPORT THEM SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS
CAN ALSO PROVIDE RESOURCES, ADVISES, AND MODELS
BESIDES COACHING

7. COACHING & FACILITATING
AGILE COACHING TYPES
DOES NOT REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORK WHICH TEAM
IS DOING
DOES NOT NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF
THE TEAM/TEAM MEMBERS
MORE FOCUS ON FIXING WAY OF THINKING
RESPONSIBLE FOR LISTENING & ASKING POWERFUL QUESTIONS
NEED EFFECTIVE LISTENING & ASKING POWERFUL QUESTIONS
TO LET PEOPLE SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS THEMSELVES

8. AGILE COACHING
ADVANCE SKILLS
All agile coaches are Lean Agile Practitioner because they are expected to
understand Lean-Agile Fundamentals very well. They need to know popular Agile
frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc
TECHNICAL MASTERY
TRANSFORMATION MASTERY
BUSINESS MASTERY

9. TECHNICAL MASTERY
Here Agile coaches grow in the technical aspect
of the development work like engineering
practices, coding practices, refactoring, code
analysis, and code quality.
AGILE COACHING TYPES

10. BUSINESS MASTERY
Business mastery a.k.a domain mastery is a skill that allow
an agile coach to understand industry (domain) related
knowledge in industries like IT, Finance, Insurance,
Education etc.. and help clients based on their business
domain.
This type of expertise allows the coaches to mentor teams in
their specific niche industries by guiding them based on
their market scenarios or specific niche related problems.
AGILE COACHING TYPES

11. Transformation mastery focuses on taking an
organization from one way of working to another.
This is most heard in cases where organizations
wants to move to agile way of working.
An Agile coach helps organizations to improve
overall business results
TRANSFORMATION MASTERY
AGILE COACHING TYPES

12. AGILE COACHING
ROLES & LEVELS
There are 3 main levels of Agile coaching path:
AGILE TEAM
FACILITATOR
ENTERPRISE
COACH
TEAM
COACH

13. Single
Team
AGILE TEAM
FACILITATOR (ATF)
REQUIRED SKILL
Teaching
Professional Coach
Mastery in Advance Skills
ABOUT
Responsible
For
An Agile Team Facilitator works with a single team or multiple
teams but the main goal is to focus on how to make that one
team excel and collaborate.
Coach needs to have mentoring and facilitating skills along with
expert skills of agile and lean. It helps the agile coach to
facilitate the team and guide them with real work case
scenarios.

14. TEAMS COACH
(PROGRAM COACH)
Multiple
Teams
Teams Coach (Program Coach)A Team coach works with multiple teams at a
time to serve at the program level. Many times it may include working with
an individual team but the focus is to enable multiple teams to work
together effectively.
Here Agile coaches need system thinking to excel collaboration between a
group of teams.
REQUIRED SKILL
Facilitating
Mentoring
Skills in Agile & lean
ABOUT
Responsible
For

15. ENTERPRISE
COACH
Org.
Responsible
For
An Enterprise level coach focuses on organization goals which includes
working with multiple program and business units to solving systematic
issues and simplifying the organization's way of working ot provide better
value for stakeholders.
The coach is responsible for creating a culture within the organization that
move forward keeping organization's goal in mind and not individual
program levels goals.
This level of agile coach requires more expertise in the advance skills
category so that the coach can make teams and multiple business units
collaborate towards achieving common goal.
REQUIRED SKILL
Facilitating
Mentoring
Skills in Agile & lean
ABOUT

16. Self Individual Team Program Organization Community
AGILE TEAM
FACILITATOR
TEAMS
COACH
ENTERPRISE
COACH
LEVEL OF INFLUENCE
REQUIRED AT EVERY LEVEL
LEVEL
ROAD
Is able to manage & influence self,
individual and team
Is able to
manage &
influence
multiple teams
Is able to manage & influence multiple
business units and programs at
organizational and community level.
PATH

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