Coaching Agile Teams ICAgile Coach Certification Class : In Omaha, NE on March 19 - 21

Who Should Attend/Prerequisites

You must be a practicing agile coach with at least 6 months of hands-on experience. Ideally, you will also have Certified ScrumMaster or equivalent agile training.  This is not an Introduction-level course and we will not be covering the basics of agile or Scrum.  In addition, you will be asked to use what you know about your real teams throughout the class so that you can leave with ideas for helping them as soon as you get back.

Class Size Limit: 30 (Minimum 0)

Course Overview

Coaching Agile Teams is a training experience that covers both the being and the doing of agile coaching.  There’s a lot to learn, experience and practice! At the end of the course, you will be capable of applying many new tools and techniques, as well as your own mindset changes, to coach agile teams to high performance. As practical as it is provocative, the Coaching Agile Teams course challenges agile coaches to rise to the fullest expression of their role and offer simple, practical ways to get there.

Journey with Certifications

The International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile), in collaboration with various thought leaders for the Agile industry, have defined a roadmap for facilitation and coaching skills that lead to an ICAgile Expert Coach designation. Recognizing that the journey through the roadmap is more than one course, there are topic certifications that are earned along the way when a defined set of learning objectives are met. The ICAgile Expert Coach designation is obtained once all the topic certifications within a track are completed.

The two topic certifications with the ICAgile Facilitation and Coaching track are:

• ICAgile Team Facilitation Certification. Please see ICAgile accredited courses such as Agile Coaching Certification Part 1: Facilitating Agile Practices.

• ICAgile Coaching Class Certification

This course has been accredited by ICAgile to cover all the learning objectives of the Coaching Certification (but not the Team Facilitation portion). Participants of this course will earn the ICAgile Coaching Class Certification. There is no preqrequisite per se to take either one of the classes first.

Agenda

• What is Agile Coaching? :: Why is it Important?
• The Being and the Doing of Agile Coaching
• Interlocking Roles: Agile Coach, Product Owner, Agile Manager
• When to Coach the Team, When to Coach Individuals
• Skills for Coaching Teams, Team Members, Product Owners, Managers, Stakeholders
• Coaching Styles and When to Use Them
• Setting the Environment for High Performance Teams
• Detecting and Solving Problems
• Starting up Great Teams :: Repairing Existing Teams
• Agile Coach Failure, Recovery and Success Modes

Cost:

2000 per attendee.

Early Bird Registration - By 02-17-2013 1800 per attendee