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What is an agile coach, really?
More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills – as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from “command and control” to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set.
This leaves many wondering, “What is my role in a self-organized team? How do I help the team yet stay hands-off?” Many respond by going too far to either extreme. This session turns these questions into answers, and answers into action by offering provocative views into coaching done well and practical ways to get there by adapting skills from professional coaching, conflict management, teaching, collaboration and more.
In this session, we will explore these topics:
- Key mindset shifts successful agile coaches achieve
- What skills from allied disciplines do agile coaches bring to their teams?
- Ways to measure your success and improvement as a coach
As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. Come see how.
What can Business Analysis and Agile mean for each other? Presenting the Agile addendum to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
Free event organised by iLean, Kontich – Business Park King Square, Veldkant 33A, 2550 Kontich.
The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) has created the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABoK) to capture the experience of business analysts worldwide on a wide set of projects. According to the BABoK, “Business analysis is the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.”
Meanwhile, Agile methods, with their own methods of understanding needs and proposing solutions, have been sweeping through many companies.
Is there room for business analysts on Agile projects? Can agile teams learn from business analysts? What happens when business analysts work in Agile teams?
The IIBA has started up a workgroup to create an “Agile addendum” to the BABoK. This addendum will provide practical guidance to do business analysis in Agile projects, based on experience. We’ll present this effort so that both communities can review and contribute to this project.
Organized in collaboration with the Brussels chapter of the IIBA.
May 21 and 22 in Gent, Belgium
Agile Open conferences are Open Space events intended for software development and business people from all walks of life … an amazingly open, warm and lively community space where people spark new insights in and relationships for collaborative (software) development and doing business together.
Register now, as places are limited to 60.
Your hosts, Koen, Peter & Patrick
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