How to Use This Page

Use this page to learn about how to assess your readiness, progress, and success as an Agile Coach.

Measuring Readiness, Progress, and Success

Active learning helps you improve in coaching:

1. Measuring your own confidence levels in knowledge areas
2. Measuring your ability to practice aspects of agile
3. Making action plans
4. Role playing workshops
5. Reflecting on lessons
6. Receiving feedback after you run workshops
7. Giving yourself feedback after you run workshops

Customer Experience of an Agile Coach in Tech Fleet

Here’s the journey that Agile Coaches go on while participating in the Agile Community of Practice in Tech Fleet:

Preparing for Agile Coach Community of Practice

It takes years to practice the art of coaching.

There will never be a point where someone feels 100% ready and prepared to actively coach people. Some people think they will be a great coach when they have the skills and the experience. This is not true at all. Great coaches empower, and inspire others to make better versions of themselves, and they are far from expert in skills.

The markers of progress of coaching are convoluted and tricky to gauge. A person who’s coaching must embrace their willingness to try things for the first time, fail, give wrong answers, and overall make mistakes when doing it for the first time.

Here’s a motivational video that describes what mindset you must build before you are ready for agile coaching. Read the text version of this here.