PROFESSIONAL COACHING FOR AGILISTS: ACCELERATING AGILE ADOPTION

Coach Individuals, Teams, and Organizations to Greater Success with Agile

As Agilists work to increase an organization's Agility, they will run into major obstacles with mindset shifts, moving to self-organization, and organizational adoption. Over the past decade, more Agilists have been using Professional Coaching to help individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole uncover these obstacles and move forward faster.

In Professional Coaching for Agilists, Damon Poole and Gillian Lee draw on their experience with thousands of Agile coaches and practitioners to show you how to use Professional Coaching to accelerate your Agile adoption. The authors' approach of "learning by doing" teaches by using well-honed exercises, real-life stories, and example coaching conversations.

This guide is framework-independent and has been designed for Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, and any Agilist involved in Agile adoption. It teaches high-value coaching skills, step by step, from "coaching by objective" to managing mutually successful engagements.

• Leverage coaching to create aha moments that lead to real change
• Learn dozens of coaching techniques and more than a hundred powerful questions
• Help people uncover blind spots and assess their opportunities more clearly
• Offer your expertise while maintaining your coaching mindset
• Help people improve performance by connecting them with their values, goals, and strengths
• Blend professional coaching with group facilitation so both work better
• Become a great coach by making coaching a natural extension of who you are

The coaching exercises and resources in the appendices are available as free downloads. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Damon Poole has provided Agile coaching and training for thousands of people at companies such as EMC, Capital One, Oanda, Ford, and Fidelity. He speaks frequently at Agile Alliance, Agile New England, Kentucky Fried Agile, Atlassian Summit, Agile and Beyond, Agile Toronto, and others. As a coach of coaches at Eliassen, Damon led the Agile Delivery team which grew to hundreds of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches in the field.

He created Eliassen's Agile Transformation approach and the training content across all aspects of Agile, and led the effort to provide opportunities for the coaches to advance in their coaching journey. This background gave Damon the opportunity to learn from hundreds of Agile Coaches in an enormous variety of client environments and from the wider international Agile community.

Damon is an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach, International Coach Academy Certified Professional Coach, and is an ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching.

Gillian Lee is a Delivery Coach who works with software development teams and leaders in growth stage organizations to maximize their delivery potential, most recently at Nulogy, Rangle.io, and Oanda. She also helps others develop their coaching and facilitation competencies through teaching workshops and mentoring. Gillian regularly speaks at local and international Agile meetups and conferences such as the Agile Alliance Conference; Agile and Beyond; Regional Scrum Gathering Canada; Toronto Agile Conference; and the AgileTO meetup, which she co-founded. Gillian is also a regular contributor to Agile Coach Camp Canada and Play4Agile Open Spaces.

Gillian is an ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching.