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The Agile Coaching DNA

Manoel Pimentel

An evolutionary book about how to catalyse improvement, promote awareness, boost ownership, develop competencies, and facilitate barrier removal.

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This book is an evolutionary work to share ideas and experiences about practices and techniques to catalyse improvements, promote awareness, boost ownership, develop competencies and facilitate barrier removal during the journey of agile adoption.  These elements are essential objectives and metaskills for change facilitators. In this book, I put together a set of useful concepts, techniques, stories and examples of how Agile Coaches can catalyse relevant transformation in the organisations. 

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Manoel Pimentel

Manoel is a catalyser of changes, author of the book ‘The Agile Coaching DNA’, speaker, musician, Director of Lean/Agile at GFT Group and former Agile Coach at Elabor8 (Australia)

He has over 20 years of experience working as a designer of solutions and helping software development teams to create better ways of working. Manoel is also passionate about innovative ways of improving organisations, for this reason, he helps companies applying practices of Management 3.0, Learning 3.0 and Lean Change Management and Agile in large scale.

More content is available in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manoelp

Contents

Table of Contents

Release Notes

  1. Version 7.1 (latest)
  2. Version 7.0
  3. Version 6.1
  4. Version 6.0
  5. Version 5.0
  6. Version 4.2
  7. Version 4.0
  8. Version 3.0
  9. Version 2.2
  10. Version 2.0
  11. Version 1.0

Introduction

Typical challenges during a change journey

Who are the clients of Agile Coaching

  1. Who is the client in Agile contexts?
  2. Coaching Agile teams requires an integral approach
  3. Why do we need Agile Coaches?
  4. You may not need Agile Coaches
  5. How to avoid fluffy approaches.
  6. Identifying a reasonable level of coachability
  7. Non-judgemental approach increases coachability
  8. The origin of this DNA

Introducing the DNA for Agile Coaching

  1. Catalyse Improvements
  2. Promote Awareness
  3. Boost Ownership
  4. Facilitate Barrier Removal
  5. Develop Competencies

How to evolve with this DNA

Examples of Agile Coaching activities based on this DNA

Practices to catalyse improvements

  1. Agile Coach as Change Facilitator
  2. Strategies for change facilitation
  3. Reduce the friction in organisational changes
  4. GROWing improvements

Ingredients to catalyse organisational improvement

  1. Change management vs change facilitation
  2. What are the most important ingredients for change?
  3. Extracting a metamodel of ingredients to change
  4. Clarity and responsibility about why change is necessary
  5. Desire to collaborate on the change journey
  6. Low organisational friction and high safety to explore new things
  7. A continuous review cycle covering all the listed ingredients
  8. A brief story about this ingredient metamodel
  9. Takeaway from the ingredients to catalyse improvements

Practices to promote awareness

  1. Key enablers for awareness
  2. Driving people’s attention to actionable areas
  3. Perspectives
  4. Situations
  5. Gaps
  6. Bridges
  7. Outcomes
  8. A few more ideas to increase awareness
  9. Identity the sources of dissatisfaction using STATIK
  10. Be aware of interruptions
  11. Several things I think that help promote awareness
  12. Visual Thinking
  13. System thinking to promote awareness
  14. Takeaway regarding the practices to promote awareness

Agile Coaching supported by a data-informed culture

  1. Why are metrics important?
  2. Gathering data to feed good retrospectives
  3. A few examples of actionable metrics
  4. Lead Time
  5. Flow Efficiency
  6. Health Checks
  7. Measure outcomes, not a particular practice or technique
  8. Team Agility Health Check
  9. Organisational Agility Health Check
  10. Business Measurements - Focus on the direction, not only on the speed
  11. Experiments based on data
  12. Wrapping the learnings

Practices to boost ownership

  1. Psychological Ownership
  2. The Dude’s law - The key to unlocking ownership
  3. Fix the system, not the individuals
  4. Create an organisational exoskeleton to boost the sense of ownership
  5. Why decentralise the decision-making process?
  6. A few more ingredients
  7. Delegation board: A tool to foster engagement
  8. Key decision areas
  9. Factors to weigh
  10. The seven levels
  11. The board
  12. Another brief example of a delegation board
  13. The main takeaway regarding how to boost ownership

Practices to develop competencies

  1. Introduction
  2. It’s not only about providing training
  3. The KAFE of competencies
  4. A simple real example
  5. Designing new competencies
  6. The boundaries and overlaps between coaching and mentoring
  7. The everyday learning
  8. Agile Coach as a Learning Facilitator
  9. Ingredients to develop competencies
  10. Collaborative and emergent learning as a critical element to developing competencies
  11. Learning 1.0
  12. Learning 2.0
  13. Learning 3.0
  14. The essence of Learning 3.0
  15. Learning Canvas - A tool to promote collaborative learning
  16. How to use Learning 3.0 in Agile Teams?
  17. Cross-pollination of ideas and experiences
  18. The homework regarding the development of competencies

Practices to facilitate barrier removal

  1. The most typical barriers
  2. The AntiValue
  3. The AntiFlow
  4. The AntiEvolution
  5. A few narratives to deal with obstacles
  6. Synthesising the typical levers
  7. Recursive use of the Agile Coaching DNA
  8. System thinking as the key ingredient
  9. Improvement Mapping - An example of a tool
  10. Takeaways about facilitation of barrier removal

Agile Coaching as an activity, not as a role

  1. A full-time role?
  2. Is there any solution for this situation?
  3. Avoiding the kiss of death
  4. Democratising the Activity of Agile Coaching
  5. The Great Takeaway

The general takeaway

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Acknowledgements

About the author

Bibliography

Causes

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