These slides are from my talk at the Agile India 2020 conference. In here, I present my work with identifying reasons that may hinder agility within organisations on account of certain actions by agile coaches and other hypothesis.

1. Why I stopped
Coaching Agility?
Vishal Prasad
www.EnterpriseJoy.com @VishalPrasadIN
And so should you!

2. Setting the Context

3. Hypothesis:
We can deploy Agile Coaches in organisations and
hopefully the organisations will overcome their inertia
in 10 years to provide a better working experience for
its people. Contrarily, if Agile Coaches cease to exist,
organisations may crumble under their inertia in 5
years and the ones left will be great places to work.

4. Curiosity has no
limits!

5. Hypothesis 1: Anyone can be an Agile
Coach, not everyone should.
We have recently seen an explosion in the number of
Agile Coaches, a lot self proclaimed and a lot driven by
certifications. This hypothesis states that although it's fair
to teach coaching skills, not restricting coaching as a
practice to a select few may do more harm than good.

6. Hypothesis 1: Anyone can be an Agile
Coach, not everyone should.
➔ Observation 1.1: The effects of having a Code of
Ethics for Agile Coaches.
➔ Observation 1.2: The effects of making the Agile
Coaching certifications obsolete or extremely
difficult.

7. YES
NO
Are you a Certified Agile Coach?

8. YES
NO
Will you be open to follow a Code of Ethics for
Agile Coaches?

9. 1) I will not call myself a Certified
Agile Coach
2) I will not call myself an Agile
Coach unless I’m actively
coaching
3) I will call myself a Scrum Master
on LinkedIn

10. NO
YES
Will you be open to follow a Code of Ethics for
Agile Coaches?

11. YES
NO
Will you pursue a higher certification if it was
sponsored?

12. YES
NO
Will you pursue a higher certification if it was
NOT sponsored?

13. NO
YES
Will you pursue a higher certification if it was
extremely difficult to pass?

14. Hypothesis 2: Not talking about agility
improves agility for others.
Although this takes a lot from coaching skills, this
hypothesis states that just the act of limiting the
propagation of information around agility can lead to an
increase in agility compared to current rates.

15. Hypothesis 2: Not talking about agility
improves agility for others.
➔ Observation 2.1: The effects of social media on the
knowledge of agility.
➔ Observation 2.2: The effects of deliberate silence by
experts around agile practices.
tools

21. Business Analyst & Podcaster
www.EnterpriseJoy.com
@VishalPrasadIN