Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition

by Adkins Lyssa

With agile, the makings of structures abound: the practices and principles inherent in agile methods, the agile manifesto, values, the purposes of recurring events such as sprint reviews or stand-ups, role definitions, and the focus on removing waste. All of these serve as fertile ground for creating structures that help the team become conscious of dealing with conflict in the context of getting better at a particular bit of agile. Choose one of these bits to bring to the team—or reaffirm it—when the team experiences conflict. Pick the one you think will get to the core of the conflict. Pick something inspiring. You can find much inspiration in the simplicity and depth of agile methods. You need not look far to find a piece of agile the team can use to create a structure that will serve.