Coaching Agile Teams Nikitas KalantjakosCoaching Agile Teams • Coaching Agile Teams – Lyssa Adkins – A companion for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition • Coaching Agile JourneyCoaching“I don’t do anything!”Coach • Bulldozer – Remove impediments • Shepherd – Guide back to agile principles • Servant Leader – Serve the team, not you • Performance Guardian – Facilitate high performance Competencies Agile-Lean Practitioner Mentoring Facilitating Teaching Coaching Technical Mastery Business Mastery Transformation Mastery Content Authority Process Authority *Adopted from Agile Coaching

Agile for Defense Agile Coaching by Darin Plum Aug 6, 2014 1 My Take on Agile Coaching  The core to all Agile is maximizing each individuals potential through autonomy and mastery  Agile Agile is a journey, not a place and the Agile Coach is the guide  A coach must have a deep understanding of the Agile Principles and real world experience  Start with Servant Leadership; Command and and control does not create autonomy  Must also be continuously working on professional development Coach for Flow  Flow is a state defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi where individuals perform at

NDIA's Agile in Government Summit 6/6/2018-6/7/2018. Keynotes: Major General Sarah Zabel http://www.ndia.org/events/2018/6/6/agile-in-government/proceedings Agile and EVMS They Can Co-exist! ( per mil/evm/ Incremental process, i.e. Rolling Wave Planning; Agile Release/Program Increment Planning. Scenario describes one method of how Agile can underpin EVM progress in support of tracking program cost an Agile development process • The scenario has defined a single product Release which is tracked using Earned Value • Shows alignment of EVM WBS elements to the Agile products hierarchy Agile Contracting

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technologies and operations, including the challenges associated with information assurance. Agile development practices can help the DoD to transform IT acquisition by delivering capabilities faster and adopt Agile practices within each element of their programs, thus helping them to succeed in an increasingly complex environment. Agile has emerged as the leading industry software development methodology methodology, and has seen growing adoption across the DoD and other federal agencies. Agile practices enable the DoD to achieve reforms directed by Congress and DoD Acquisition Executives. DoD Instruction

Leadership in the Age of Agility – Part 3 By Mark Schwartz “Courage, I say, is the value most needed by Agile IT leaders.” – Mark Schwartz Last Time in Part 2 Enterprise Architecture: The job of IT leaders and when we realize that the costs and risks of custom development have been radically reduced, the economics often now favor custom development. Governance and Oversight: Governance has traditionally strategic objectives and produce investment themes that accomplish those objectives. When combined with Agile and Lean practices, this approach can focus IT planning, reduce risk, eliminate waste, and provide

contractor-control model. But it doesn’t. Requirements: Requirements are a way of controlling the development team by constraining their creativity. Instead of requirements, we want to charge the team—the the Agile4Defense GitHub page at: https://git.io/JeaOu Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Architecture, the domain of the IT bureaucrats, is the place we must look for the solution to our Agile challenges zombies to retrieve our golden asset, careful to carry mirrors to avoid petrification. Good luck, Agile fellows. In the past: We viewed EA as primarily concerned with standardization, consistency, planning