Coaching agility is best done by showing people the value of the change while pragmatically and respectfully helping them find their style of using one or more practices. Descriptive coaching – helping people find their way - is always more sticky than prescriptive coaching – telling them what to do.
This session will cover various tools and techniques you can use to help create sustainable software communities where the value of a practice takes precedence over the mechanics, and where agility is one of many tools being used to delivery. From preproduction (before the first iteration) to the early and formative iterations to the times after the honeymoon, we will cover various coaching that helps newly forming communities find and keep an agile groove.
Biography
David has been creating software for many years in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, legal, retail, and education to name a few. David now spends his time mentoring and coaching agile communities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa. Along with presenting and leading workshops / tutorials at conferences in the U.S. and Europe, David has contributed to several books (“Managing Agile Projects” and “Agile in the Large”), worked on agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University, and is currently writing a book for the Pragmatic Programmer series.
David leads DevJam, a Minneapolis based company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on using agile methods to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products.
For more information, check out the DevJam website www.devjam.com
