Agile Coaching
What is Agile Coaching? An agile coach helps organizations, teams, and individuals adopt agile practices and methods while embedding agile values and mindsets. The goal of an agile coach is to foster more effective, transparent, and cohesive teams, and to enable better outcomes, solutions, and products/services for customers.
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The following graphic illustrates Agile Coaching in a Nutshell:
At IT Projects Consulting, we believe the most optimal methodology to achieve a successful project outcome is to keep in touch with the stakeholders on a regular basis, and we believe the scrum agile project management framework is the best way to achieve a successful outcome for any IT Project.
What is scrum? Scrum is an agile project management framework that helps teams structure and manage their work through a set of values, principles, and practices. Much like a rugby team (where it gets its name) training for the big game, scrum encourages teams to learn through experiences, self-organize while working on a problem, and reflect on their wins and losses to continuously improve.
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While the scrum we are talking about is most frequently used by software development teams, its principles and lessons can be applied to all kinds of teamwork. This is one of the reasons scrum is so popular. Often thought of as an agile project management framework, scrum describes a set of meetings, tools, and roles that work in concert to help teams structure and manage their work.
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In this video, you will see how a traditional scrum framework is comprised with the help of the Scrum Guide and David West, CEO of Scrum.org. We’ll also include examples of how we see customers stray from these fundamentals to fit their specific needs. For that, Atlassian software's Megan Cook, Group Product Manager for JIRA Software and former agile coach, will provide tips and tricks in Atlassian software's Agile Coach video series:
Sources: atlassian.com and dandypeople.com