{"id":1813,"date":"2024-01-15T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T09:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2024-02-16T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T09:03:22","slug":"the-truth-about-agile-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/the-truth-about-agile-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Agile Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you google the term \u201cAgile Coach(ing)\u201d you will be bombarded with statements like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAgile Coaching is the process of helping individuals, teams, and organizations adopt and improve their agile practices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA project management professional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHelps scale Agile in Organisations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Agile Coaching encompasses so much more than this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a huge fan of Lyssa Adkins (she herself is a lean Agile practitioner, coach, trainer, mentor), in my second article I will use her Competency Framework to break down the role of the Agile Coach into more detail. But for now, this is what I think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agile Coaching and the role of the Agile coach, helps guide the individual and organisation through change, complexity and uncertainty to ultimately become more customer-centric, efficient, productive and satisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice how I didn\u2019t refer to any methodology, practice or tools? That\u2019s because the Agile Coach is dealing with the people first. And in my opinion, people are always going to be your greatest complexity. But that\u2019s just my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why would you want to invest in an Agile Coach? What’s the alternative?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Organisations are continuously looking for better ways to grow, improve, be more efficient, be more customer-focused. They are looking for more and better ways to win.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Agile was introduced as a more effective way of working compared with more traditional approaches that are lengthy, costly and often fail at producing any real value. Agile allowed us to break down our work, deliver frequently, with feedback and to become more customer centric. It encourages autonomy, knowledge workers and investment in people. It focuses on value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So imagine, a new way of working, new things to learn \u2013 but you want your staff, your organisation to keep working on what they are working on, they can\u2019t just stop to learn new things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bring in the Agile Coaches!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An Agile Coach is there to serve, to bring knowledge and new ways of thinking to the team. They are capability builders \u2013 they are there to help create sustainability amongst teams and organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on how Lean Tree can help you visit our coaching service page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you google the term \u201cAgile Coach(ing)\u201d you will be bombarded with statements like: \u201cAgile Coaching is the process of helping individuals, teams, and organizations adopt and improve their agile practices.\u201d \u201cA project management professional.\u201d \u201cHelps scale Agile in Organisations.\u201d But Agile Coaching encompasses so much more than this. I am a huge fan of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"The Truth About Agile Coaching | Lean Tree","_seopress_titles_desc":"Why would you want to invest in an Agile Coach? Our blog post guides you through the role of an Agile Coach and the key difference they can make.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leantree.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}