Coaching Agile Teams

  Agile   Scrum  

Two words, agile and coaching, seem to be the greatest buzz words (after "brain" and "neuro") from the last five years or so. No one would have heard it more frequently now than ever before. And the way things are progressing, I see them staying on the "top buzz words list" for many decades.

Let’s understand these words individually first and then see how they make sense together. More importantly, let’s understand “why” they make sense “together”.

First let’s look at agile. What is agile? No, not XP, Scrum, Kanban, etc. (The question is, “What is agile?”) No, agile is not the Agile Manifesto. Agile is not all the different methodologies or techniques. Agile is also not X Roles + X Ceremonies or time boxes + X artifacts. So what is agile?

1. The free dictionary defines agile as “characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement”
2. Another definition from Merriam-Webster says “marked by ready ability to move with quick easy grace”
3. The way I like to put it is “Quickly responding to change defines agility”

In software development context, how quickly, lightly, easily, readily, gracefully we develop software defines agility. If I add my definition to the sentence aboves then it would be: how quickly, lightly, easily, …

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