PANEL DISCUSSION: AGILE COACHES AND AGILE CLIENTS
Getting coached in Agile has emerged as a best practice for organizations that seek great results the first time out with Agile.
What is the story? Can an “in house” coach do as well as an external coach coming in from outside?
What can you expect from a coach?
How long is the typical engagement?
Is it EVER right for a coach to occupy the Scrum Master role for months? Why or why not?
What is it like to engage a coach? As an organization, how does coaching help?
What are the deliverables? Why use coaches? Why not just do it yourself ?
Each coach and client on the panel will tell a coaching story. Then we open it up to questions and discussion. ANYTHING GOES. Bring your tough questions.
Come prepared to be surprised !!
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Participants include:
Dan LeFebvre
Dan is a coach in the Boston area. He is the first Certified Scrum Coach in New England. He has been coaching Agile since 2003. Dan has deep experience coaching teams and organizations.
MIke Loftus
Mike Loftus is the Senior VP of Product Development at Cambridge Interactive Development Corp. The company makes Everest Poker, the online poker game for European Markets. Mike championed Agile at CIDC, continues to do so, and has some great coaching stories to tell.
Don Blair
Don Blair is an in-house Agile champion and coach at Cisco. He champions Agile teams and nurtures Agility inside Cisco. Don has some great in-house coach stories for you. In-house coaching that is too candid might cost you your job. Don explains.
Ralph Fink
Ralph works at Sikorsky Aircraft and has pioneered Agile practices at that company. As an authorized manager, he hires Agile coaches and Scrum experts to help. Ralph has many interesting coaching stories. In-house, he is the Agile champ and coaches other Sikorsky managers on how to do this stuff.
Dan Mezick
Dan is a professional Agile coach, delivering coaching in Scrum and Agile since 2008. Dan delivers Agile and Scrum training. He is on a quest to teach 1000 PMPs the fundamentals of Agile of Scrum. Dan’s coaches in RI, MA, IL, CT, NY,and PA and he has got some coaching rants for you.
Michael de la Maza
Michael coaches Agile and Scrum for a living. His sometimes-radical ideas tend to find their way into mainstream Agile practice after a while. Michael often coaches teams by not telling them what to do; instead, he asks them questions. This tends to make the team much smarter after a brief delay.
NOTE THE DATE AND LOCATION:
Date: Wednesday June 22 2011 6:30PM
Location: Microsoft Waltham. DIRECTIONS TO MICROSOFT WALTHAM.
MEETING AGENDA:
630PM Agile intro:fundamentals of Scrum
700PM Socialization break….food and beverages throughout
715PM MAIN EVENT: Coaching Panel: Agile Coaching, the UNTOLD STORY from clients and coaches (in Boston)
820PM CONCLUDE and WRAP UP
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DIRECTIONS to the EVENT LOCATION
REGISTER HERE
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