Speaker

Bob Galen is an Agile Practitioner, Trainer & Coach based in Cary, NC. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards agile ways of working. Bob has been doing that since the late 1990s, so he’s deeply experienced. He is the Director of Agile Practice at Zenergy Technologies, a leading business agility transformation company. Bob is also President and Head Coach at Agile Moose, a boutique agile consulting firm.

He is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach Emeritus (CECem), an iCAgile authorized trainer, and an active member of the Agile Alliance.

He’s published four agile-centric books: Agile Reflections in 2012, The Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing in 2015, Scrum Product Ownership, 3’rd Edition in 2019, and Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching in 2022. He’s also a prolific writer & blogger on Substack and podcaster (at www.meta-cast.com).

Title: A Leader’s Guide to Agile Coaching

DESCRIPTION 

Some perspectives imply that Agile Coaching is for a small set of specialized agilists who serve to improve everyone else or that it’s a unique role that others, including managers and leaders, shouldn’t do or will find difficult to master. This talk intends to debunk those notions. Everyone has leadership potential and can rise to be a leader. Leaders must learn to coach if they are to be effective. 

In this workshop, Bob Galen will explore the nuance associated with Agile Coaching to demystify it and encourage you to find your inner Agile Coach in whatever leadership role you currently hold. He’ll share and explore the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as a competency model for agile coaching. Next, he'll explore the critical characteristics of an agile coaching mindset. Finally, he’ll give you a chance to practice having a coaching conversation or two. 

Bob hopes to inspire you, so your inner Agile Coach emerges, grows, and shines. 

Learning Points 

1.     Introduction to the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel. 

2.     Critical aspects and characteristics for your agile coaching mindset. 

3.     Exploration of a coaching conversation metaphor & guidance that will help frame your coaching sessions.