What is it about?
The Agile Coach role has become an established role in many teams and companies. Broadly speaking, the role helps teams to adopt and deepen their agile ways of working. But the role itself is mired in confusion: a coach’s own model of “agile coaching” is frequently different to that of the organization which hires the coach; and the teams which are coached may well see the coach role differently again. Agile coaches are not homogenous. This paper sets out some of the different roles behind the title "Agile Coach."
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Agile software development continues to grow both in terms of usage and in terms of knowledge and lore. In addition, agile has spread beyond software development and is found in many other domains. Agile Coaches proliferate but the title “Agile Coach” hides a plethora of different types of coach. Coach, employer and coaches all have different expectations. Between agile coaches it is an open secret that the role is a mess.
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A starting point for trying to understand what agile coaches actually do.
Allan Kelly
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This page is a summary of: Patterns of Agile Coach roles, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3551902.3551963.
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