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Coaching Agile Teams, Re-Read Saturday Week 10, Chapter 9, Coach as Conflict Navigator

Chapter 9 of Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins (SPaMCAST Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/38G0ZD3) explores the role of the coach in navigation conflict.  Some conflict is always present when humans... Read More

Measuring success and customer satisfaction in an Agile environment (with a Kanban and Scumban Focus)

Register Now! https://bit.ly/3Uqk7rL On October 11, 2022, 12:00 PM Central Daylight Saving Time (US and Canada) I will be facilitating a panel discussion for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems... Read More

Coaching Agile Teams, Re-Read Saturday Week 9, Chapter 8, Coach as Problem Solver

Chapter 8 of Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins is “Coach as Problem Solver”. After reading this chapter for the third or fourth time, I think the title should have... Read More

Coaching Agile Teams, Re-Read Saturday Week 8, Chapter 7, Coach As Teacher

This week, Chapter 7 of Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins. While observing and facilitating might be the most prolific coach activities, at times teaching takes front and center. As... Read More

Coaching Agile Teams, Re-Read Saturday Week 7, Chapter 6, Coach as Facilitator

As a coach, I suspect I spend more time facilitating and observing than playing any other sub-role. Chapter 6, titled Coach as Facilitator, provides a number of gems that piqued... Read More

Coaching Agile Teams, Re-Read Saturday Week 6, Chapter 5, Coach as Coach-Mentor

Chapter 5 begins Part 2 of Coaching Agile Teams. During my initial read of this book, I found Part 2 the most immediately useful. During this re-read, I reflect less... Read More

 Work Entry versus Work Intake

Jeremy Willets and I recently facilitated a workshop titled, Managing Work Entry: How the Mushy Middle is Killing Your Agility (Path to Agility). Work entry is how work gets to... Read More

Coaching Agile Teams, Re-Read Saturday Week 5, Chapter 4, Let Your Style Change

Chapter 4 of Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins, discusses the idea that a team, individual, or organization follows a path from a learner, to mastery to a teacher using... Read More

Coaching Agile Teams, Re-Read Saturday Week 4, Chapter 3, Master Yourself

I am still recovering from a Covid infection I picked up at or getting to Agile 2022. All in all, I have been lucky (and prepared) and have weathered a... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Delayed

Over the past week, I spent an amazing week at Agile 2022. My goal was to be re-radicalized. I reconnected with friends, made new friends, learned a new personal pronoun... Read More