Agile and Beyond 2018

Have you ever been a part of a team that attended some form of Agile training for a day or so, and then expected to go forth and be Agile? Or, even worse, have you ever been asked to help a team improve, but the team found themselves too busy to improve? I unfortunately have said yes to both of these questions and for each, the result wasn’t good and as a leader of the teams impacted — I failed them. After these and many more frustrating experiences, I set out to figure out what needs to change in order to improve the outcomes and help make people awesome. In this session, I want to share what I discovered. During this session, we’ll brainstorm the areas that we struggle, explore the aspects of becoming good and high-performing, and we’ll establish a baseline understanding of agile practices. We’ll dive into the concept of deliberate practice and look at how we create an environment that enables deliberate practice to occur. Finally, we’ll wrap-up with a group discovery of practices the we’ve used in the field to overcome the areas that we struggle. Please join me for an outcome focused coaching session.