Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))

bThe Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams/b p style="margin: 0px;" br/pp style="margin: 0px;"As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence./p p style="margin: 0px;" /p p style="margin: 0px;"More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from “command and control” to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set./p p style="margin: 0px;" /p p style="margin: 0px;"In biCoaching Agile Teams,/i/b Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring./p p style="margin: 0px;" /p p style="margin: 0px;"Coverage includes/p ulliUnderstanding what it takes to be a great agile coach/liliMastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach/liliCreating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge/liliCoaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration /liliEvolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes/liliStaying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth/liliRecognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching/liliGetting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey/li/ul p style="margin: 0px;" /p p style="margin: 0px;"Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?/p