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Agile Coaching
Discover how to coach your team to become more Agile. Agile Coaching de-mystifies agile practices--it's a practical guide to creating strong agile teams. Packed with useful tips from practicing agile coaches Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley, this book gives you coaching tools that you can apply whether you are a project manager, a technical lead, or working in a software team....more
Paperback, 250 pages
Published
September 4th 2009
by Pragmatic Bookshelf
(first published August 28th 2009)
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I read this book when I started on a new project as team lead for one of my clients. The client is in the process of adopting agile but the team was very inexperienced with agile practices. Having worked in agile teams at other clients, the task of coaching the team to be more agile fell upon me.
As such, I feel I'm the ideal audience for this book. The authors assume basic knowledge of agile practices and focus on techniques to help a team apply them better. It's very practical, more a collecti...more
As such, I feel I'm the ideal audience for this book. The authors assume basic knowledge of agile practices and focus on techniques to help a team apply them better. It's very practical, more a collecti...more
Agile Coaching is the book I wish I had read when I started coaching my first team. While agile is spreading fast, a lot of people take on coaching roles, these people finally have a book to find the answer for their questions.
The book Rachel & Liz wrote is not only good for people new to coaching, as a seasoned coach, I found some new idea's (Standup Checkov), it refreshed rusted idea's (ping pong programming), and challenged some other (no comments). This is one of the books I know I will...more
The book Rachel & Liz wrote is not only good for people new to coaching, as a seasoned coach, I found some new idea's (Standup Checkov), it refreshed rusted idea's (ping pong programming), and challenged some other (no comments). This is one of the books I know I will...more
I was an agile coach at Google for 18 months, starting in 2008. I figured I should check out this book and compare notes.
The book is directed specifically at agile coaches: people whose role it is to turn development teams to agile methodologies. The authors are trying to mentor the mostly junior coaches in how to deal with their team. There are three layers of experience: teams have limited knowledge of agile, coaches know agile principles and are passionate about them, but lack skills to trans...more
The book is directed specifically at agile coaches: people whose role it is to turn development teams to agile methodologies. The authors are trying to mentor the mostly junior coaches in how to deal with their team. There are three layers of experience: teams have limited knowledge of agile, coaches know agile principles and are passionate about them, but lack skills to trans...more
A lot of the agile information in here is quite basic. It's definitely geared towards the coaching aspects, and has some interesting psychology references. I think it can serve two purposes: an intro to agile from a people-centered view, or for someone more experienced with agile technical practices that wants to move into coaching a team. I lent it to a developer as a first agile book, and he got a lot out of it in the former sense.
This is a very lightweight book for someone who wants to get started with introducing Agile Software Development to a team. There are a lot of examples and side-stories for individuals in situations and how to deal with them from a coaching role. If you are just getting started with Agile, this is a great book. If you feel like you already have a mature Agile adoption, this book might seem a bit basic. There is a lot of focus on teamwork.
This book is a great introduction to introducing agile methods to a project as an agile coach. Unfortunately, it's written entirely from the perspective of an formalized role as an agile coach. This means that the book is not well suited for people who wants to introduce agile methods (or just agile practices) without a official role.
Still, even if you don't have the official role, there are a lot of things one can gain from this book (e.g. dos and don'ts) - it just can't stand alone, but has to...more
Still, even if you don't have the official role, there are a lot of things one can gain from this book (e.g. dos and don'ts) - it just can't stand alone, but has to...more
I feel that I should have loved this book. But I can't find any enthusiasm for it.
There's some good tips & good advice in it, but it feels shallow; just a reverberation in an echo chamber of good agile practice.
It might just be that I read it at the wrong time, earlier in my career I'm positive I'd would have found it packed with gold nuggets.
There's some good tips & good advice in it, but it feels shallow; just a reverberation in an echo chamber of good agile practice.
It might just be that I read it at the wrong time, earlier in my career I'm positive I'd would have found it packed with gold nuggets.
This is a quite good book for anyone working with agile even if you are not coaching agile as such. There are lots of good tips, tricks and lessons learned from applying the values and practices.
There is nothing revolutionary to be found, but good pointers on when to push, when to bend, and how to do it.
There is nothing revolutionary to be found, but good pointers on when to push, when to bend, and how to do it.
Brilliant book. It covers number of aspects every Agile Coach should be aware of bear in mind while working with teams. Also, the book provides real-life examples what I really like as that builds up the trust between author and reader.
This book is a must-have tool of an Agile Coach ! Highly recommended reading for every one in the agile team as well!
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Really good book. A must for agile coaches or Project managers
This book views the Scrum process from a coaching perspective.
All the basics are in here. A great, solid kick start book for leading a team in Agile development.
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I'm not too far into this one yet. So far it looks great.
Excellent guide to coaching full of all the essential basics, practical tips, real stories and useful references.
Full of useful advice but came to me at the wrong time.
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