Coaching

What a Scrum Master may ask a PO in order to help coach them in their role.

Fredrik Wendt shares 10 questions a Scrum Master may ask a Product Owner to help coach them in their role. Since not all questions apply to every context, and individuals have different definitions of success, methods of work, or team compositions, he advises you to take these questions as a starting point to craft the perfect set for your needs.

Effective organizational coaching must take a balanced approach with more time spent coaching "up" than "down".

Robert Galen tells the tale of how a coaching firm was contracted multi-billion-dollar organization for a 15 million dollar project. The consulting firm then hired 10 disparate coaches with no engagement strategy nor consistency of coaching approaches. In the two year engagement, 150 scrum teams were ramped up - a great numbers success. The experience showed the difference between coaching "down" (changing the teams) and coaching up "changing upper management), and the effects of sustainable change.

Visualize the degree of scrum adoption in the corporate environment.

How much should we adapt scrum to our specific situation? Zack Bonaker suggests that before customizing the "off-the-shelf" methodology, teams should first achieve the maximum potential improvement offered. With each tweak of the framework, organizational dysfunctions exacerbate the potential problems - so he offers a tool to measure the degree of adoption of the corporate environment.

Supporting people through positive coaching experiences.

Having seen that there is an enormous gap that separates available education and the reality of the Scrum Master / Agile Coach profession, the author shares his view on a better way to work with people. Roland Flemm proposes that by understanding yourself, the basics of human psychology and the principles of Solution Oriented Coaching, a servant leader can become more effective.