Agile Coach’s Corner

Dave Prior, PMP, CST, MBA is an Agile Consultant for LeadingAgile, where he provides training and coaching organizations who are transitioning to agile.

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Why do organizations pursuing Agile transformation need a coach and how do they make it stick after the coach leaves? In this new series, we explore these and other questions, starting with Certified Scrum Coach and Trainer Xavier Quesada Allue.

This is a new ProjectsAtWork.com series featuring interviews with Agile coaches, trainers and consultants. In these conversations, we’ll explore their experiences and insights in leading Agile transformations, including favored approaches and tools, best practices and lessons learned, and client challenges and successes.

Xavier Quesada Allue is a seasoned Agile coach, trainer and consultant based in Belgium who also works in Spain and Latin America. He is one of the few people in the world to have earned both a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) designation from the Scrum Alliance. Xavier is a frequent presenter at Agile conferences around the world and maintains a blog called Visual Management.

Why do organizations pursing Agile transformation need a coach?

Very simple: risk and ROI. A good coach is cost-effective. Quality coaching pays itself back in no time. A coach catalyzes improvement. Without a coach, you will likely fail slowly. It's hard to know what you're doing wrong when it's something new and it seems more or less to be working, as often happens with …

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