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To lead change, you need to expand your toolkit, and this book gives you the tools you need to make the transition from agile practitioner to agile coach.
Agile Coaching is all about working with people to create great agile teams. You'll learn how to build a team that produces great software and has fun doing it. In the process, you'll grow a team that's self-sufficient and skillful.
This book provides you with deeper knowledge of how agile practices work and how to inspire your team to improve. Discover how to coach your team through the agile lifecycle, from planning to writing software. Learn the secrets of running effective agile meetings and how to get your team following a consistent approach to creating software. You'll find chapters dedicated to introducing Test-Driven Development, designing Retrospectives, and making progress visible.
Find out what works and what to avoid when introducing agile practices to your team. Throughout the book the authors share their personal coaching stories from experience with real teams, giving you insights into what works and what to avoid. Each chapter also covers hurdles that you and your team may face and what to do to clear them.
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Rachel Davies provides expert coaching to teams in Agile software development techniques, such as Test-Driven Development and planning with User Stories. She has been working with Agile teams using XP and Scrum since 2000. Rachel is internationally recognized in the agile community, a frequent presenter at industry conferences worldwide, and a director of Agile Alliance.
Liz Sedley is an Agile Coach and .Net Developer working in London, UK. She has fifteen years industry experience, mostly as a C++ / C# developer. Liz has spent the last four years enabling companies to be more Agile.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Agile Coaching an Agile Coach,
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I have seen Agile coaching in action! While the value of coaching a software team in any form of best practice cannot be underestimated, it can also be extremly destructive if the coaches don't have any experience of writing software at the sharp end, merely a collection of letters after their names that give them a false sense of confidence that knowledge gained in the circles of academia can be unswervingly applied to the real world.Here is where the difference comes in. From reading Rachel and Liz's book it was pretty clear that they don't see their work as a textbook that can be applied to any software dilemma but more as a series of guidlines and techniques that can be used to improve teamwork, communication and job fulfillment. After reading this book I quickly came to the conclusion that I needed someone with proven agile coaching experience to help me set up my software team. I use the Agile Coaching book as my point of reference, while I am in the lucky situation of being able to build my team around what I have learnt in the book, I wish I had this kind of help when I was working with large legacy teams from non agile backgrounds.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Informative and invaluable,
This review is from: Agile Coaching (Paperback)
So what is "Agile Coaching"?Chances are, you've heard this phrase being knocked around at work or from reading blogs. In the software development community, it's refreshing to find a well written and informative book that cuts through the jargon and buzz words. The book provides real practical advice on how to apply techniques and methods that aid both day to day development and long term project outlooks. The authors' experience shines through in this essential addition to the bookshelf.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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A much needed book about a very important practice,
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Coaching. How hard can it be? To the uninitiated a great coach hardly seems to do a thing: a small comment here, a gentle prod there. The result, the subjects magically improve.Of course the truth is that there's no such thing as magic, and that coaching is a skill (maybe an art) that takes years to perfect. As others have said here, Agile has internalised the vital role that coaches can play, and as it grows in popularity there are going to be more and more people trying to coach, without knowing where to start. This book is perfect for them. It's packed full of tips, snippets, pauses for thoughts, techniques, and most importantly stories. It can get a nascent coach started on the right road. Vitally, it talks not just about practical application, but more importantly about the frame of mind a coach needs to have. Given a bad coach is perhaps more damaging than a good coach is helpful, helping them focus on the way they act is a fundamentally important part of the book's message. Finally, more experienced coaches will get plenty from this book, too (I know I did); Whether in the form of revisiting known techniques, discovering new ones, or apropos reminders of the aforementioned mindset. I don't know of any other book aimed at Agile coaching. Great stuff, and much needed.
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