The document discusses the evolving role of an Agile coach. It outlines different styles of coaching, such as commentator, generalist, specialist, and motivator. It also addresses common questions for Agile coaches regarding their approach, credentials, objectives and key results. The document cautions that the role of an Agile coach can mean different things and discusses potential conflicts between the coach and other roles like architect or product manager. It also covers determining the return on investment from an Agile coach and potential failure modes. The key takeaways are to set clear expectations for the coach's role, agree on outcomes, focus on organizational development and culture, establish structures, and highlight the outcomes.

1. CHANGING
EXPECTATIONS FROM AN
AGILE COACH
RAHUL SUDAME

2. Who Am I?
Insurance delivery unit head
– Persistent Systems
Presented experiences at
125+ conferences, webinars
Involved in transformation
initiatives for customers
Worked as Agile Coach for
MNCs
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulsudame/ rahulsudame@yahoo.com

3. Agenda
Evolution of Agile Coach
Role
1 Client Feedback
2
Styles of Coaching
3 ROI of Agile Coach
4

4. Story of a Blue Agile Coach

5. Evolution of Agile Coach Role
Ref: Coaching Agile
Teams –Lyssa Adkins

6. Evolution of Agile Coach Role

7. War of credentials!

8. Abundance of options
• Professional Scrum Master I (PSM-I)
• Professional Agile Leadership-I
• ICAgile Certified Professional - Leading with
Agility (ICP-LEA)
• ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile
Coaching (ICP-ACC)
• DevOps Culture Certified Trainer (DCCT)
• Certified SAFe 5 Program Consultant (SPC5)
• Certified SAFe® 4 Release Train Engineer
• A-CSM (Advanced Certified Scrum Master)
• AHF(Certified agility health facilitator)
• Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner
• Licensed Scrum M
• Certified Scrum Professional – ScrumMaster
• Certified ScrumMaster
• SAFe Program Consultant 4.0- SPC 4.0
• PMI-ACP

9. Client Feedback

10. Types of Agile Coaches
Ref: Coaching Agile
Teams –Lyssa Adkins

11. Job Description of Technical Agile Coach
Focus on Team & Engineering agility. Looking for expertise in the areas of TDD, BDD, Branching strategy, managing
non-functional requirements, handling technical debt etc. Technical Agility Coach will be required to mentor, train and coach
scrum teams on engineering and agile concepts:
- Good understanding of Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles
- Proficient with Scrum values, roles, events, artefacts and best practices
- Proficient with concepts of architecture design:
- fundamentals of service oriented / microservices / modular architecture
- Intentional architecture
- Emergent design
- Architecture principles related to testability, maintainability, scalability, etc.
- Expertise in technology specific coding standards and coding best practices
- Very-good understanding of refactoring techniques
- Proficient with unit test automation. Can guide team-members
- Very-good understanding of test-driven development. Can guide team-members
- Proficient with branching strategy. Familiarity with trunk-based development
- Proficient with continuous integration
- Experience in using Jira, Plugins, Custom Dashboards etc.

12. Job Description of Technical Agile Coach
Focus on Team & Engineering agility. Looking for expertise in the areas of TDD, BDD, Branching strategy, managing
non-functional requirements, handling technical debt etc. Technical Agility Coach will be required to mentor, train and coach
scrum teams on engineering and agile concepts:
- Good understanding of Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles
- Proficient with Scrum values, roles, events, artefacts and best practices
- Proficient with concepts of architecture design:
- fundamentals of service oriented / microservices / modular architecture
- Intentional architecture
- Emergent design
- Architecture principles related to testability, maintainability, scalability, etc.
- Expertise in technology specific coding standards and coding best practices
- Very-good understanding of refactoring techniques
- Proficient with unit test automation. Can guide team-members
- Very-good understanding of test-driven development. Can guide team-members
- Proficient with branching strategy. Familiarity with trunk-based development
- Proficient with continuous integration
- Experience in using Jira, Plugins, Custom Dashboards etc.

13. It can mean different things to different people
What if there is a conflict between Coach & Architect / PM / Scrum Master role?

14. It can mean different things to different people

15. Interview Questions

16. What is your style of Coaching?
Commentator Generalist / Specialist
On Ground Captain
Motivator
Instructor

17. What’s your religion (Scrum, SAFe, DA, LeSS, Spotify)?

18. What is Objective & key results (OKR) for Agile Coach?
Delivery Cycle
time optimization
Tailoring as per
org environment
Delivery of
BusinessValue
Creating right
Mindset
Building High
Performing
Teams
Build
self-sustaining
teams!
Organizational Change & Development (OD & OC)

19. What is ROI /TCO with Coach?
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5

20. Agile Coach Failure Modes
Failure
Modes
Spy
Seagull
Opinionat
or
Admin
Hub
Butterfly
Expert
Nag

21. Takeaways
Set right expectations about role of Coach
Ensure agreement on expected outcome
Focus on org. development & culture
Establish right structures
Highlight the Outcome

22. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulsudame/ rahulsudame@yahoo.com