Thank you to our coaches who have volunteered to make the Coaches' Clinic a reality at Scrum Gathering San Diego. I am delighted to see most of our coaches are a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) or Certified Team Coach (CTC). I know participants will see the immense value and quality of the CEC/CTC and will have a greater awareness of the it.
Join me in offer our applause and gratitude to our Clinic Coaches:
And many more who volunteered onsite !
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Favorite Moment
"I met with around 6 people at the Coaches Clinic. What struck me most was that 4 out of 6 worked for managers who didn't seem to know why they were implementing agile. They wondered how to effectively operate when support was tenuous, and when the rest of the organization was not trained to limit interruptions and work-in-process or to interpret team experimentation as a road to success. I worried that these lower-level Scrum Masters and project managers, and their agile implementations, were vulnerable to mediocrity or cancellation due to manager misunderstanding. So my coaching for these folks was to offer some simple ways to better communicate the principles of agile with non-agile managers, and give those managers good tools to see whether agile was a superior approach. I believe this helped my clients at the Coaches Clinic."
Impact on Me
"I appreciate the opportunity to see a bunch of people in short bursts: this gets the most important issues addressed rapidly. It also helped gel some of my ideas in this space.."
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"Coaches' Corner is always a blast. You get to meet people excited in making a change, and I get a chance to help them achieve that. Win-Win :)."
Favorite Moment
"My favorite this year was helping a scrum master, whose manager charged him with spreading the success of his team to other parts of the organization without executive and dept head support, to realize he didn't have to change everything all at once, and the people he already had engaged are the right people for him to be engaging now, and to make it more about their needs than about touting his own successes. I think I asked the right questions on this one. He walked away seemingly empowered with a plan."
Impact on Me
" I learn something from the clients every time. This Gathering, there was a lot of talk in my circles about what it actually means to coach. It was a good opportunity for me to actively evaluate when I was in consult mode and when I was in coach mode."
Favorite Moment
"I enjoyed some mentoring time with a CEC and CTC candidate. I coached a client as a demonstration and we did some feedback/learning. Then one of them coached the other and I was able to give feedback and the coach partner received feedback from the client partner. This helped them to really understand what coaching is and isn’t and I think it also gave some insight into how people think they are coaching because they are asking questions but often the questions are leading the client to the solution the coach intends."
Impact on Me
"It was great to work with the community and meet new people. I also enjoyed hearing what the community as a whole is struggling with and thinking about at this point in time."