
Take thorough notes in your own words as you work through every chapter. Share key learnings with friends and set goals to stay motivated and enjoy the course.
Learn the roles and responsibilities of an agile coach, including facilitating agile meetings, coaching and mentoring, training stakeholders, and facilitating change management during transformation, while continuously growing as methodologies evolve.
Apply the Agile Manifesto to your personal experience by evaluating each value and principle. Record your meanings, emotions, experiences, and opinions while maintaining neutrality as an agile coach.
Explore Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Startup, examining what they are, their principles, advantages, and limitations, and learn when to select each framework for your team's needs.
Visualize the workflow with kanban boards, limit work in progress, manage the whole flow, make process policies explicit, and implement feedback loops to continuously improve delivery.
Adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, embrace uncertainty, and apply the build-measure-learn loop with a minimum viable product to validate learning with data, use innovation accounting, and pivot when needed.
Explore lean startup advantages like reduced risk, early customer feedback, and faster time to market with a viable product, plus improved resource management, while noting limitations such as data overreliance.
Select the right agile framework by weighing team size, task complexity, predictability, and customer involvement, using Scrum for complex projects, Kanban for flow, and Lean Startup for rapid experimentation.
Track leading and lagging metrics to drive agile success: monitor training, meetings, feedback, and tool usage to boost velocity, throughput, and customer satisfaction.
Explore feedback tools like Google Forms and Typeform, using templates or from scratch, with scales and various question types. Export responses to Excel, share links, and view completion rates.
Learn to use Mentimeter to run polls in real time, gather weekly priorities and team reflections, and run agile games with word cloud, Q&A, and rankings for interactive virtual sessions.
Explore how agile coaches are hired across information technology, finance, health care, manufacturing, education, advertising, and government. Improve project management, product development, and customer experience amid rapid change.
Explore whether an agile coach works as a freelancer or as an employee, weighing flexibility, rates, and project-based work against salary, job security, and benefits across multiple teams.
An Agile coach helps organizations and teams implement Agile methodologies to improve productivity and delivery. Becoming a certified Agile coach professional is important for career advancement and increased earning potential. The average salary for an Agile coach in the US is 123,000 per year, with potential to earn up to 200,000 per year depending on experience and location. Employment of Agile coaches is projected to grow 11% from 2019 to 2029, making it a promising and secure career choice.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of Agile Coaching, including its definition, benefits, roles, and essential skills. The course also explores the Agile mindset, principles, and values, and the three main Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, and Lean). Participants will gain a deeper understanding of Agile coaching techniques for facilitation, communication, problem-solving, coaching, training, and mentoring. Additionally, the course covers Agile Coaching practices, metrics, and tools, including Agile boards, retrospective tools, feedback tools, facilitation tools, collaboration tools, and visual thinking tools.
In this course, participants will learn how to coach teams and individuals, facilitate Agile practices, communicate effectively, and solve complex problems. They will also gain insight into the key tasks of an Agile coach, different industries and job requirements, and tips for finding and getting a job. The course concludes with an overview of Agile Coaching certification programs and tips for preparing for and passing the certification exam.
Learning Outcomes:
Understand Agile Coaching and its benefits
Gain knowledge of the Agile mindset, principles, and values
Learn the three main Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, and Lean)
Develop essential skills for Agile coaching, including facilitation, communication, problem-solving, coaching, training, and mentoring
Explore Agile Coaching practices, metrics, and tools, including Agile boards, retrospective tools, feedback tools, facilitation tools, collaboration tools, and visual thinking tools
Discover the key tasks of an Agile coach and different industries and job requirements
Learn tips for finding and getting a job as an Agile coach
Understand Agile Coaching certification programs and prepare for the certification exam