Develop Agile Coaching

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Good coaching can address the challenges many organizations face when adopting Agile ways of working, including Scrum implementation. Sometimes that means hiring an experienced coach from the outside; sometimes coaching skills can be developed from within the workforce. There are a number of resources to help.

Many organizations struggle to adopt agile ways of working while implementing Scrum. While the Agile Manifesto looks to be common sense at a first glance, and the Scrum framework appears to be simple and straightforward, getting an organization to use Scrum and get benefits out of it can be difficult. Some reasons have to do with the culture of the organization, creating teams, and learning new ways to collaborate and communicate. People have to learn new ways of working, and unlearn things that they are doing now. While it is often most effective to learn this "on the job, by doing it", the combination of doing your work and learning new things can be difficult.

Coaching is seen as a means to address these challenges, and it can help an organization to adopt agile. But how can assure that your organization has the capability to do agile coaching? Let's explore what coaching can accomplish, why you would need it, and what you can do to develop agile coaching in your organization. 

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