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The two things I learned from hosting 30 agile Meetups in 2020

crossing the road into 2021 This post is about fear versus hope. I don’t want you to have to work in fear. A lot of people I spoke to throughout 2020 ...
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How to navigate your agile career through 2021; a 5-step guide

2020 was a tough year; I'd like to help make 2021 an awesome year for you.
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How I got 15 agile coaches to align, collaborate and deliver an ...

HINT: you can't command and control agile coaches; they expect and deserve to be treated as knowledge workers who play a key role in achieving change ...
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4 steps to becoming a competent, self-confident agile coach

I believe the role of agile coach is the best job to have; this post is my view on what it takes to confidently and competently execute the role.
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Three Tensions Agile Coaches Learn to Navigate

Navigating tensions is like walking along a ridge; one wrong step can lead to a (very) bad outcome. Here are some tips to keep you safe.
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What are agile coaches accountable for..?

This post summarises what 40 agile coaches said at a recent Meetup when I asked them the above question.
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From Agile to agility… time to stop talking about points and sprints

Is it time to drop all of the Agile language and get back to work?
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The one agile question I don’t know the answer to

I constantly get asked for certainty and clarity when it does not exist.
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Source Agility - Responsive Agile Coaching book

GET THE RESPONSIVE AGILE COACHING BOOK!

In “Responsive Agile Coaching” – Niall McShane draws on over a decade of agile coaching experience to document a clear and well-researched model that lifts the lid on how agile coaching actually works. The book starts by defining what the role of agile coach has become in recent times before putting forward a field-tested and theoretically sound model for conducting agile coaching conversations.