Its a catastrophe – option 2

I recently published a way for team coaches to help a person or team convert a “Catastrophe” into a plan of attack. This is another approach to doing the same thing. Advertisements

My (dodgy) agile maturity model

Recently, some people asked me if I used an agile maturity model. I guess this should not come as a surprise because agile has gone mainstream. Organisations are now struggling with how to create a consistent and effective approach to implementing agile practices. A maturity model is a good way of assessing whether a team […]

Its a catastrophe – how does an agile coach respond?

In this series of articles I will provide suggestions for helping people tackle problems and “catastrophes.” In each case I either provide some open questions or “a couple of boxes on a wall.”

5 and 10 finger voting

I previously looked at the “MVP” of democracy – voting with a thumb. Now I am looking at the concepts of 5 finger voting and 10 finger voting.

Thumb based voting

Not everything in coaching is based on complex psychology and systems thinking. Sometimes you just want want a quick way to make a group decision, assess data or gather people’s reactions to an idea. One of the quickest ways to assess an idea is to ask for a show of hands. I leaned this one […]

Jason’s coaching journey. The mysterious cheat sheet

The mysterious cheat sheet In this long read, we continue to learn about Jason and his experience as an agile coach. In this episode Jason and Sonja stumble on some useful tips for coaches when they stumble on a coaching cheat sheet left behind by one of the ancient coaches and they learn some great […]

Jason’s coaching journey – the struggling coaches

Some context before we start This is the second in a series of long articles about Jason, who is an agile coach. In the last episode, Jason was coaching away happily when suddenly it all came crashing down. In this episode we look at how he reacts and how his friend Sonja tries to help […]