Coaching
Why do you need Coaching when you want to become Agile?
Training provides you with the knowledge about a specific topic, tools and, in case of Scrum, a common understanding about proven best practices and why agile methodologies work. Coaching builds on that knowledge and enables and accelerates the understanding of Agile Principles through everyday work practices.
Executing only the practices without having fully understood the principles behind Agile will hinder and even prevent you from reaching continuous improvement, which is crucial to a long-lasting and sustainable Agile transformation.
Our Coaching Services
We are not only coaching your teams in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP or other methodologies, but we also provide:
- Executive Coaching and Training
- Specific Role Coaching
- Individual Coaching
since the Agile change of an organization is strongly tied to your executive's ability to lead and motivate the teams. Our senior coaches have many years of executive experience and strong business backgrounds from which to draw. They will support you during the Agile Transition and provide powerful tools, such as:
- Agile Strategy Map™
- The Team Coaching Framework™
- Portfolio Board
- Coach the Coach™
and many more. For large organizations all methods and tools are combined in our Enterprise Transition Framework™ which can also be used with new methods like Less, Dad, Kanban, SAFe.
In addition, we can also offer you coaching at a high EMCC accredited level.
agile42 Coaches are Experts
We take great pride in our tradition of coaching, which is continuously being adapted to the needs of the company and teams. All agile42 Coaches are employed and build a network throughout different regions around the world. This enables us to meet our customer’s language needs and location requirements.
Our Clients are our Partner
All agile42 coaches have real world experience managing software development teams or projects outside IT using Agile and Lean techniques. We are proud about our client base and the successful Agile implementations we have done and do every day for companies like Ericsson, Siemens, Skype, Nokia, Hypoport, eBuddy, Princeton Financial Systems, Wirecard, Ableton, TC Electronic, Babbel, Aperto, HSBC, Barcleys and many more.
Our Unique “Coach the Coach” Approach
Our approach is simple, but not easy. It is based on the support that we will give you when it is time to put methodologies and theories into practice. As part of our work, our agile42 coaches will train a team of internal coaches within your organization to support the transition process and to establish the change in mindset throughout the whole organization.
Team Coaching Framework™
With the help of our Team Coaching Framework™ we will be able to accelerate the new coaches’ learning and, thereby, effectively transfer our experience to your people. In this way you will be able to scale Agile within the organization, from one team to the next very effectively and consistently.
Enterprise or Start-up
We successfully support large projects and international enterprises. But our coaches love to work in smaller assignments and with local companies too.
What to Expect from agile42 Coaching
For us, coaching is not just consulting. We do not tell you what to do and we will not do the work for you, but rather we help you to find your own solutions and optimize your processes through retrospection and continuous improvement. In order to accelerate the implementation of a new method like Scrum or Kanban, effective on-the-job coaching is the key to becoming independent from external help.
This is our aim: to help you find your way and achieve systematic continuous improvement as fast as possible. And it is only in this way that an Agile Transition can be successful and sustainable.