Agile Coaching - the best way to accelerate your delivery maturity

Agile Coaching is the best way to accelerate your delivery maturity whilst nurturing better behaviours and capabilities. With decades of experience our coaches are able to engage with teams of all maturity levels and quickly understand the issues.

Delivering valuable insights that have an immediate impact on performance. The Solutioneers Coaching Service gives you access to all the benefits of high quality coaching without the commitment of having a full time coach on-staff. 

Our Agile Coaches are:

  • Highly experienced hands-on practitioners in Lean and Agile ways of working
  • Work with many methodologies including Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS
  • A safe pair of hands to help your teams to rapidly improve
  • Leading experts providing Agile Coaching with a solid track record. 
  • Have T-shaped skills (generalising specialists), meaning you can book the right coach to meet your needs but still tap into their wider experience.
  • A part of our UK wide network of Agile Coaches for further support as needed.
  • Experienced in coaching and leading successful Agile Transformations in the Public and Private sectors

Benefits

The Solutioneers Agile Coaching service delivers:

  • On-demand access to an Agile Coach
  • An external change agent always carries more gravitas
  • Our Agile Coaches bring many years experience from a rich variety of organisations
  • An external coach can be an objective observer
  • The external coach facilitates learning within the team
  • They see your world through a different lens enabling them to spot systemic issues

Face to Face Coaching

  • Weekly mentoring for Scrum Master / Agile Coach / Delivery Lead.
  • On-demand face to face support for team members.
  • To better support your team we analyse data from your ALM[1] tool and use this insight to drive improvements within the team.
  • Track the progress of the team through the Solutioneers team maturity framework – Leanware.
  • Available on an ad-hoc basis, part time (1-3 days per week) or short engagements / work packages.

Remote Coaching

  • Weekly mentoring for Scrum Master / Agile Coach / Delivery Lead.
  • On-demand support via Skype for team members.
  • To better support your team we analyse data from your ALM[1] tool and use this insight to drive improvements within the team.
  • For distributed teams, we will facilitate daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
  • Track the progress of the team through the Solutioneers team maturity framework – Leanware.

What is an Agile Coach?

An Agile Coach is someone who helps organisations and teams to implement Lean & Agile ways of working. They ultimately facilitate the organisational culture change required to sustain Agile ways of working in order to deliver better outcomes for customers.

The Agile Coach can work at a personal one to one level, the team level, and at the organisational level.

They have experience of delivering software using Agile methods and share that experience with the teams they are coaching. The Agile Coach provides feedback and advice to new agile project teams in a way that empowers them to learn and evolve experimentally.

Agile Coaches need to understand where a team is up to in their Agile journey and provide an appropriate level of support to get the team to the next level. To get them to the next level, Coaches drive an agenda of improvement, challenge thinking and ask awkward questions in a safe way.

[1] ALM means Agile Lifecycle Management. Example ALM tools include Jira, VSTS, Azure DevOps, TFS, LeanKit, Kanbanize, Swift Kanban.
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About Leanware

Leanware is a proprietary improvement framework developed by Solutioneers and is a key part of the Solutioneers Coaching toolset. It is based on 23 core principles that create high performance teams. Improvement plans are created with the team by the coach and tracked using Leanware.

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