Applied business Archives

Gimme back my bullets

23/04/2021 Bob Galen 0

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 […]

What makes a great team?

05/04/2021 bccoaching 0

Being a part of a team doesn’t mean working together and finishing up tasks and projects. It represents a unity that every single member can count on when it’s hard or share their successes and […]

Agile coaches need more than coaching skills

31/03/2021 Bob Galen 0

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 […]

Today’s business environment is very complex, if we take into consideration several parameters. It is equally uncertain for small companies as it is for multinational giants. Until just a few years ago, having large working […]

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS MORE PRESCRIPTIVE AGILE COACHES

09/03/2021 Bob Galen 0

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 […]

Play4Agile conference

04/03/2021 bccoaching 0

Last week, an ONLINE conference was held, called Play4Agile, a unique conference dedicated to team games, which are applied in the Agile world, but also much wider. What is more, this conference is held every […]

Team Up with an Agile Coach

01/03/2021 bccoaching 0

Findings from the first-ever State of Agile Coaching Report Making significant team and organizational changes that motivate employees can be challenging. That’s where an agile coach comes in. In late 2020, Scrum Alliance and the […]

THE TRAP OF BEING AN EMBEDDED AGILE COACH

19/02/2021 Bob Galen 0

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 […]

People over processes

17/02/2021 Srdjan Pavlovic 0

Not long ago, the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Agile Manifesto, a document that has changed the world in which we work in many ways, was marked. And like some prophets, 17 software […]

SCENE 1 – WHERE HAS ALL THE COACHING GONE?

06/02/2021 Bob Galen 0

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 […]