These essays are a series of posts related to Agile coaching.
They are posted in service to Agile coaches throughout the world.
The guidance here is distilled from over 8 years and over 10,000 hours of advising, consulting with, and providing coaching to, Agile teams and organizations in the USA and Europe.
NOTE: If you find value in these essays and find yourself curiously drawn to them, you may also enjoy OpenSpace Agility. OSA is is a repeatable technique for getting a rapid and lasting Agile adoption. It works with what you are currently doing, and can be added at any time. OSA Workshops are listed here.
You might later consider following me on Twitter and/or joining the OpenSpace Agility group on Facebook. I hope that you do.
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About the Author , Daniel Mezick
Books by this author include:
THE CULTURE GAME (link)
THE OPENSPACE AGILITY HANDBOOK (on Amazon now in print and Kindle editions) (content link)
This podcast covers Agile, Open Space and Scrum in 1 hour.
It’s a pretty good summary of my thinking with respect to “enterprise Agile transformations”:
http://theconversationfactory.com/podcast/2017/6/23/dan-mezick-on-agile-as-an-invitation-to-a-game
AGILE COACHING LESSONS: TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Lesson 01: Signal That You Have No Authority
Lesson 02: Positioning Is Signaling
Lesson 03: Use Your Body When Facilitating
Lesson 04: Self-Organization Is Self-Management
Lesson 05: Self-Management is Authority-Distribution-By-Consent
Lesson 06: Your Authoritative Style Kills Self-Organization
Lesson 07: Invite Facilitation
Lesson 08: Practices Change, Principles Don’t
Lesson 09: Start in Open Space
Lesson 10: Open Space Tells The Story
Lesson 11: Encourage Executives to Encourage Experimentation
Lesson 12: I Want To Write The Story (and be IN the story…)
Lesson 13: When They Say No, Reduce the Ask By Half
Lesson 14: Engagement is Everything
Lesson 15: Real Leaders Go First
Lesson 16: Help The Team Identify Their Core Values As Soon As Possible. Or Sooner
Lesson 17: The PUSH of Agile Creates “Trance Formations”
Lesson 18: Definitions Are Agreements
Lesson 19: Agile is a Game. Agree About The Rules
Lesson 20: Only the Engaged Can Actively Self-Manage
Lesson 21: Ending in Open Space
Lesson 22: Get It In Writing
Coming Soon:
Lesson 25: Most (Group) Behavior is Unconscious
Lesson 30: Read SPIRIT by Harrison Own. ALL of it
Lesson 35: All Learning is Change. Most Change is Grief
Lesson 40: Without a Coherent Story, Liminality Reigns
Lesson 45: Human Culture Abhors a Storytelling Vacuum
Lesson 50: Most Problems Are Problems with Authorization
Lesson 55: Only the Engaged Can Actively Self-Manage
Lesson 60: Forget Everything They Tell You on the Phone
Lesson 65: If It Works Small, It Might Work Big
Lesson 70: Use Invitation To Create Engagement
Lesson 90: Every KPI You Are Measuring Depends on Engaged Human Beings Who Actually Give a Damn
Lesson 100: The Authoritative Mandate of Specific Agile Practices Routinely Switches Them Off
Lesson 110: Don’t Say “Self Organization” to Executives, Say “High Performance” Instead
Lesson 120: Don’t Say “Play” to Executives, Say “Experimentation” Instead
Lesson 130: Nurture an Emerging Culture of “Committed Experimentation”
Lesson 140: Announce The Date You Are LEAVING
Lesson 150: Make the Cultural Advantages of Facilitation Blatantly Obvious
Lesson 160: Never Facilitate An Open Space Meeting
Lesson 170: Sharpen Your Rhetoric
Lesson 180: Teach Them Everything You Currently Know, But Be Discerning In Terms Of When, What and Who
Lesson 190: Embody The Spirit of Open Space
Lesson 200: Agile Adoption Is Very Triggering For Participants- Gird Your Loins
Lesson 210: Pay Attention to the Anxiety Iceberg
Lesson 220: Worried People Can’t Learn
Lesson 230: Be Predictable and Reliable
Lesson 240: Deliver Control, Progress, and Belonging
Lesson 250: Facilitators Must Be Authorized
Lesson 260: Let The Lessons from Open Space Guide You
Lesson 270: Attend a Group Relations Conference
Lesson 280: What No One Wants To Admit… About Open Space
Lesson 290: Never Win an Argument
Lesson 300: Reduce the Coaching Days
Lesson 310: Shut The Door
Lesson 320: Your Presence Cannot Trigger The Transformation, Only Your ABSENCE Can Do That
Lesson 340: Teach Them To Sit With It
Lesson 350: Let The Culture Take Care of It
Lesson 360: Everybody Knows
Lesson 370: Effective Use of The Silent Treatment
Lesson 380: Less is More
Lesson 390: Vacate the Circle
If you find value in these essays and find yourself curiously drawn to them, consider following me on Twitter and/or joining the Open Agile Adoption group on Facebook
Copyright 2015 Daniel Mezick. All Rights Reserved. Contact the author via www.DanielMezick.com to receive permission to reprint.