Agile Coaching and Transformation offers practical and hands-on advice for individuals, teams, and organizations striving for greater enterprise agility. Through the lens of an agile coach, this text highlights key considerations and strategies for supporting an agile transformation.
Uniquely combining both the practical guidance for transitioning to an agile enterprise with an overview of the skills, strategies, and perspectives of agile coaches, this text equips readers with a broad set of skills to make informed decisions about the tools, roles, and processes needed for success.
In three core sections, author Simone Craig will guide readers through an overview of the characteristics of an agile enterprise and the role of an agile coach before delving into the different dimensions of agility including the agile mindset, different organizational structures, and key processes and tools. Lastly, Craig will show readers how to extend agility beyond the team level, triggering transformation at every level of enterprise.
Agile Coaching and Transformation is an invaluable resource for business and management programs at universities and colleges in Canada and the US, especially for courses focused on agile leadership, transformation, or coaching. Whether a student, experienced coach, or business leader, this text provides insights and tools needed to thrive in today’s fast-paced business environment.
FEATURES
A unique resource that merges insights on transitioning businesses to agile enterprise with practical coaching strategies for success
Actionable strategies that are easy to implement no matter the industry, sector, or business
Robust pedagogical features including “Agile Coach’s Lens” and “Agile Coach’s Toolbox” textboxes, end-of-chapter reflection questions, and a glossary
Chapter 10 Rollout Strategies and Typical Challenges
Glossary
Biography
Simone Craig is a college professor and agile coach born and raised in Germany. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business from Wilfrid Laurier University and earned her MBA from the Australia Institute of Business. For many years, she combined her industry experience as project manager, people leader, and agile coach with part-time teaching at the post-secondary level. As an agile coach, she successfully mentored and coached teams in adopting Scrum and Kanban practices. As Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), she has provided training courses and certifications to over 130 individuals in the Kanban method. In addition to her expertise in agile delivery techniques, she also brings deep experience in the Waterfall approach to round out her project management toolset. Eventually, her passion for teaching won and she embarked on her journey as a full-time professor at Conestoga College. With a desire to always have fresh and interesting tales to tell her students, she also formed her own consulting company, “The Agile Lens,” offering agile coaching and corporate training to the North American market. She is certified in Project Management (PMP), Scrum (CSM), Kanban (KMP, AKT), and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
“Agile Coaching and Transformation is a perfect guide for anyone interested in becoming an agile coach or leading an agile transformation in the role of an agile coach. This is one of the few books that talks at length about the role of the agile coach and the skills needed for successful agile coaches but in the context of agile transformations, which makes the book practical and easy to read.”
—Joanna Tivig, Co-Author of Gen P: New Generation of Product Owners Who Care about Customers and Project Management instructor, University of Toronto
“The book provides a nice overview of some foundational aspects, augmented with firsthand experiences and expertise with considerations from various perspectives to bring concepts to life. The chapter summaries and reflection questions provide a wonderful opportunity for both personal reflections and discussion amongst peers when thinking about how the material presented might apply in your own context and environment. This is a good starting point of useful information and insights to broaden the perspective of anyone on their agile journey.”
—Jeff Kosciejew, Consultant and Trainer, Agile Magic
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