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10 Irrefutable laws of Agile Coaching

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

http://agileworld.blogspot.com

@ venky_nk

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

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Author, Advisor and Speaker

Co-Author:

Who is Agile in Australia and New Zealand

https://leanpub.com/whoisagileAustralia

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1. Knowing Agile, Kanban and Lean

won’t make you an Agile coach

Conflict

Managemen

t

Planning

Team

Building

Decision

Making

Empath

y

Persuasio

n Influencing Motivational

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2. Be an Alien when you start with a new team

http://lunatractor.com/2011/05/13/great-agile-workspaces-how-we-

communicate/

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3. Have the ability to have two opposing

ideas in mind

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4. Be within the system to change the

system

• Systems are like Russian Dolls. One

is nested in another.

• Teams are nested within a large group.

The group is nested under a larger

portfolio

• Each of the nested systems interact

and impact all the time

• Trying to change one area without

understanding the impact or the

influence will be futile

• One cannot create a new system from

scratch. New system should be built

on the existing system

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5. Build Trust and Relationship before

Stand Up and Retrospective skills

Deterrence based

Knowledge based

Identity based

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6. Work directly with Stakeholder who pays

money

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7. Don’t escalate against your own team

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8. If you can’t change the system, you

will end up becoming part of the system

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9. You are a doctor and listen to the

symptoms and prescribe the medicine

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10. Practices are context dependent

Practices that

could work for one

team may not

work for the others

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