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Tips for Coaching Agile Teams To succeed as an agile coach, you need to understand the skills and mastery that the position requires. Here, Venkatesh Krishnamurthy shares some tips that will help you coach an agile team. Remember, it has been found that successful leaders have creative traits rather than reactive ones. |
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Five Lessons to Help You Be a Better Team Coach Venkatesh Krishnamurthy shares his recent experience in joining a fitness program assisted by a personal trainer and how that relates to good team coaching. While the program benefited Venkatesh, he writes that his physical change occurred only with willingness and collaboration, not with force. |
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What Is the Difference between an Agile Coach and a ScrumMaster? Joe Townsend explores what exactly the role of an agile coach is and how it differs from the role of a ScrumMaster. For some, ScrumMasters are the front-line fighters and agile coaches are higher up in the organization; for others, an agile coach is the next role a ScrumMaster evolves into. |
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What Is a True Agile Coach? Obtaining a Scrum or agile certification typically does not require that a person learn the fundamental differences between coaching, facilitation, and mentoring. This lack of understanding is reducing the quality of coaching to our customers. |
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Why Managers Need to Coach Naomi Karten writes that coaching is increasingly seen as one of the manager’s most important responsibilities. Research suggests that organizations effective at teaching managers to coach deliver higher levels of employee productivity, employee engagement, and financial performance. |
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ScrumMasters vs. Project Managers Joe Townsend explores whether or not a ScrumMaster can be considered a product manager and vice versa. The way the roles are defined (or evolving) should help you avoid potential conflict in your agile organization. |
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Eight Things Successful Managers Do Well Naomi Karten describes eight things that successful managers do well. From building relationships and being straight with employees, to coaching the right people and giving credit when it's due, a good manager can inspire team members to work harder and happier. |
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How to "Manage" Your Former Peers and Friends If you’ve just become a manager or executive, and you’re now going to be managing people who used to be your colleagues and pals, your relationships with your former peers will change. You may prefer that the relationships don’t change, but they can, they will, and if you are to succeed, they must. |
