10 Irrefutable laws of Agile Coaching

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

http://agileworld.blogspot.com

@ venky_nk

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

Author, Advisor and Speaker

Co-Author:

Who is Agile in Australia and New Zealand

https://leanpub.com/whoisagileAustralia

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

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

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

communicate/

3. Have the ability to have two opposing

ideas in mind

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

5. Build Trust and Relationship before

Stand Up and Retrospective skills

Deterrence based

Knowledge based

Identity based

6. Work directly with Stakeholder who pays

money

7. Don’t escalate against your own team

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

will end up becoming part of the system

9. You are a doctor and listen to the

symptoms and prescribe the medicine

10. Practices are context dependent

Practices that

could work for one

team may not

work for the others