Crisp Agile Coach Program, spring 2024

Do you want to learn what it means to be an effective Agile Coach? Do you want to be mentored by our experienced Agile Coaches who can help you facilitate your organization’s journey towards high-performing empowered teams? Do you want to do it in a way that combines theory and practice, increasing your chances of successfully applying your knowledge in real-life situations? Then our program is for you.

The program is currently running and we’re so happy about how it’s working out that we have decided to run a fourth cohort in 2024!

What is the difference between a course and a program?

A course can be a great experience but it is often like going to a great movie: when the movie ends, you are back to reality and nothing has changed. You may feel inspired but you have not really changed. Lasting change in mindset and behavior requires practice over time. That is why we need a program that lets you practice over time and allows you to build a community.

Our Agile Coach Program

The program combines theory with insights gained from practicing the theory to allow for positive learning feedback loops. We do that by spreading a 4 day workshop out over a 3 months period. We kickstart the program with a 2 day startup that allows the participants to get to know each other, clarify expectations and set their learning goals. We follow up with shorter learning labs, 3.5 hours every other week, online. There is ”agile coffee” session, where the participants get to choose the topics to discuss. These are in the weeks between the learning labs and 1 hour long, online. We also support and coach each participant individually between each learning lab.

Expected program outcomes

1. Developing individual Agile Coaching skills. 
2. Building a “learning community” of Agile Coaches for sustained continued learning
3. Each participant delivers an outcome in their organization as an integrated part of the program by leading their own change initiative within the program

Learn what our previous participants had to say about the program (in Swedish)

Our experienced teachers

Mikael and Joakim have been teaching Leadership, Agile Coaching and product development for many years. They have also worked together with clients and have extensive hands-on experience helping organisations to high performance.

Audience:

• Team leads, Scrum Masters, new Agile Coaches, Product Owners, RTEs, line managers, or project managers who want to develop their coaching skills in the agile workplace

Pre-requisites:

• Experience working with Agile teams as team lead, Scrum Master or similar.
• Experience of Agile methods, such as Scrum and Kanban.

Curriculum in short

• Empowered organizations
  Why is agile eating the world?
  The core insight of the agile movement.
  The three laws of agile.
• Coaching & Facilitation
  The role of coaching in empowered organizations.
  The GROW coaching model and powerful questions.
  How to effectively facilitate decisions and meetings
• Developing high-performing teams
  What is high-performance?
  Team performance models and how to assess your team.
  Measuring and improving team performance.
• Servant Leadership
  From traditional management to servant leadership.
  What to do and how to act as a servant leader?
• Empowered teams
  The empowered team concept and why it’s critical today.
  From output to outcomes: solving meaningful problems.
  Moving from delivery or feature teams to empowered teams.
• Team of Teams
  The concept of tribes as team-of-teams.
  How to kickstart, maintain and develop tribes
  Agile at scale.
• Improve Continuously
  Models and methods to improve continuously (e.g. Toyota Kata).

Program Outline

Agile Coffee (remote)  – socialize with fellow coaches and discuss any topic you’re struggling with. Remote agile coffees on Thursdays morning every two weeks (10:00-11:00 CET). Dates;

• March 14th
• March 27th
• April 18th
• May 2nd
• May 16th

Celebration, summarizing learnings and kicking off the future, on-site at Crisp office on May 29th (09:00-12:00 CET).

At least two mentor coaching sessions (by course instructors) between Learning labs.

Program buddies – participants are paired up to support each other, and to practice their coaching skills together.

Breakthrough project – a real change initiative designed by yourself to provide an opportunity to continuously practice new skills and tools while adding value to the organization