The Agile Coach's Cookbook : The Pathway to Beneficial Agile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Jon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Creative ability in business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Agile Coach's Cookbook

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Austin Macauley Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

"With this coach's cookbook, Jon has managed to create a thing of both great simplicity and immense value. A must read for the coaching community, this is an easily referenceable guide to coaching excellence, full of handy hints, tips, tools and techniques. As a coach, no matter your experience, expertise and specialism, this is a resource you will all want in your back pocket."-- Gustav Bjorkeroth, CEO at Radtac"There are so many self-proclaimed-and-promoting agile experts, and best-selling agile authors. It's challenging to decipher who's right, who to engage with, or who to follow. Then there's Jon Ward of Beneficial Consulting. Jon's pragmatic and catalytic approach nullifies these challenges. Within the world of 'agile transformation', transitioning from 'waterfall to agile', Jon stands up and out providing practical advice based on successful recent experience. This book provides an essential read for agile coaches who wish to make a difference."-- Alan Gedye, Head: People Change Management and Enablement, Absa Johannesburg

Contents:

Intro

The Agile Coach's Cookbook

About the Author

Dedication

Copyright Information ©

Acknowledgement

Introduction

How to Use This Guide

The Hors D'oeuvre Starters for the Coach and the Organisation

Agile - A Dish with Many Spices

PDCA

Lean Principles

Test-Driven

Control

Synchrony

Ways of Working

Coaching Competency Framework

Coaching Contract Recipe

Coaching Contract Ingredients

Introducing the Coach to a Team

The Coach's Plan Recipe

Coach's Plan Ingredients

Use of a Team Health Check Model

Team Health Check Recipe

The Health Check Ingredients

The Questions for Team Development

Coaching Diary Recipe

Coach's Diary Template

The Reflective Practice Recipe

Reflective Practice Ingredients

Changing the PMO Recipe

Changing the PMO Ingredients

The Lean-Agile PMO Recipe

Implementing the Lean-Agile PMO Ingredients

Serving Suggestions the Hors D'oeurves

The Entrée - Recipes for Working with Teams

Team Charter - Recipe

Rapid Team Start-Up Recipe

Roles and Responsibilities Recipes

Agile Process Tailoring Recipe

Agile Process Tailoring Ingredients

Definitions of Ready and Done Ingredients

Requirements Analysis Recipe

Requirements Analysis Ingredients

The Benefits Mapping Recipe

Benefits Mapping Ingredients

Sprint Backlog Refinement

Sprint Backlog Refinement Recipe

Kanban Backlog Management

Kanban Backlog Management Recipe

Estimation Recipes

The Initial Estimation Recipe

T-shirt Sizing Recipe

T-shirt Sizing Ingredients

Kanban Estimation Recipe

Kanban Control Ingredients

The Design to Cost Recipe

Design to Cost Ingredients

Agile Risk Management Recipe

Agile Risk Management Ingredients

Release Planning Recipe

Release Planning Ingredients

Agile Testing Recipes.

Agile Testing Ingredients

Test Planning Recipe

Test Plan Ingredients

Test-driven recipe

Acceptance Test-Driven Development Recipe

The Acceptance Test-Driven Ingredients

Behaviour Driven Development Recipe

Test-driven Development Recipe

Continuous Testing Recipe

Model-based Testing (MBT) Recipe

Applied Test Metrics Recipe

Activity Control Recipe

Activity Control Ingredients

Managing Activities Using Scrum Recipe

Scrum Control Metrics Recipe

Managing Activities Using Kanban Recipe

Kanban Work-in-Progress Limits Recipe

Kanban Control Metrics Recipe

Continuous Improvement

Sprint Retrospective Recipe

Retrospective Ingredients

Recipes for Long-lived Teams

Long-lived Maintaining a Coaching Position

Avoiding Declining Productivity

The Entrées - Serving Suggestions

Set Menus - For Programmes and Larger Activities

Self-Selecting Teams' Recipe

Self-selecting Teams' Ingredients.

Large Team Process Tailoring Recipe,

The Big-Room Planning Recipe

To Scale a Team or Not?

Scaling is Hard

What Can Be Done Instead of Scaling?

The Scaling-Scrum Recipe

Aggregating Kanban

DevOps Recipes

The Agile QA Coach Recipe

The Recipe for Agile Outside of IT

Agile Outside of IT Ingredients

Set Menus - Serving Suggestions

Transformational Dinner Parties!

Enterprise Agile Coaching Recipe

Why is Agile so Hard? The Situational Analysis

Systemic "Blockers" Recipe

Executive Action Team Recipe

Executive Action Team Ingredients

Lean-Agile PMO as a Catalyst

PMO As a Catalyst Ingredient

Agile Portfolio Management Recipe

Portfolio Management Recipes

Rolling Wave Portfolio Planning Ingredients

Agile Transformation Stages Recipe

Exploration - The Initial Stage

Essential Benchmarks Recipe

We Tried It Once but....

Formalisation - the Transformation Stage

Step 1 - The Formal "Go-Agile" Decision

The Why Agile? Recipe - The Link Between Strategy and Agile

Transformation Business Case Recipe

Step 2 - The Transformation Sundial Recipe

The Transformation Sundial Ingredients

Ownership of the Plan Ingredients

The Plan - the Coaching Ingredients

Broad and Shallow or Narrow and Deep Strategies

Broad and Shallow Ingredients

Narrow and Deep Ingredients

Identifying the Anti-Agile Patterns

Following the Finances Recipe

Systemic Challenges Recipe

Systemic Challenges Ingredients

Planning the Communications Recipe

Communications Ingredients

Managing Stakeholder Recipe

Communications Plan Template

Step 3 - Support Model Recipe

Agile Champion Recipe

Step 4 - Creating the new WOW - the framework fixation

Tailoring of the Framework Recipe

Role Mapping Recipe

Building the Agile Ecosystem

Quality Assurance Recipe

Step 5 - Train the Team Members

Coach and Support Teams' Recipes

Coaching and Supporting the Sponsor's Recipe

Coaching Sponsor's Ingredients

Step 6 - Mobilise

Step 7 - Transition of In-Flight activities

Candidate Activities to Transition Ingredients

Step 8 - Coach and Support

Allocation of Coaches to Teams' Recipe

Communities of practice

The PMO As a Catalyst

Step 9 - Measure the Results Recipe

The Benefit of Measuring Recipe

Transformation Progress Recipe

Measuring Progress Ingredients

Normalisation Stage - Moving to BAU

Activity Assurance and the PMO

The Activity Assurance Recipe

Dinner Parties - Serving Suggestions

References.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781398402546

1398402540

OCLC:

1255219196