Agile
Gimme back my bullets
There’s a song by Lynyrd Skynrd entitled Gimme Back my Bullets. It came to mind when I was thinking about this post and I thought I’d share that backstory with you. This is a follow-up […]
Articles by Bob Galen
Agile
Agile coaches need more than coaching skills
I earned my CEC (Certified Enterprise Coach) certification with the Scrum Alliance in 2012. I’d applied in 2011, so it took me about a year to go through the process at the time. If my […]
Agile
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS MORE PRESCRIPTIVE AGILE COACHES
I was once working with a peer agile coach and we were discussing the role of the coach within agile teams. His view was that it was as a “soft, encouraging, influencing” role. That at […]
Agile
THE TRAP OF BEING AN EMBEDDED AGILE COACH
I was having dinner the other evening with a few agile coaches after teaching a CAL class all day. I think we all wanted to “trap” each other into either: Revealing our coaching secrets Checking […]
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SCENE 1 – WHERE HAS ALL THE COACHING GONE?
I’m a Certified Scrum Coach and I know quite a few CST’s. Many of them offer training and coaching as part of their services. However, the typical client interaction, either with public classes or private […]
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Agile coaching – I have a dream…
I’ve been practicing “agile stuff” for 25 years. Over that time, I’ve been actively coaching agile notions at the team, group, organization, and company levels. In 2012, I received my Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) designation […]
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Motivating Agile Teams
Someone approached me the other day for some coaching advice. It seems that they’re in a Coach / Scrum Master role and have a team that, well, isn’t doing very well. They’re pushing back on […]