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 the role of the Agile Coach: 1. Activity must have clear goals and process 2. Must have clear and immediate feedback 3. Confidence in ability to complete the task  The power of Agile frameworks (Scrum

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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changing 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 professionals with details on how to 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 industry software development 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

Open Discussion on Project Planning Planning in an Agile Environment Key Tenets  Planning should focus strongly on the near term  Eliminate waste caused by planning for eventualities that never come plans beyond a program’s ability to control or accurately predict future circumstances o Agile methodology does not force programs to establish their full scope, requirements, and design at the start and user stories to concisely define the desired system functions and provide the foundation for Agile estimation and planning. o They describe what the users want to accomplish with the resulting system

Mike Ballou Agile Principles 0 Nick Tuck XP Prctices 1 Shawn Stumme Continuous Delivery 4 Josh Wade Cyber Security through Agile 2 Nick Tuck Maximizing Retrospectives 2 Ray Page Open Agile Topics 0 Planning 1 Mike Ballou Contracting Agile Projects 0 Adam Raggett Agile Transparency 1 Nick Wenner Clean Code - Book Overview 2 Kyle Baardson SAFe: Scaled Agile Framework 3 Brandon McAllister Automation Servant: Agile Book Club 1 Ron Horner Kanban for the People! 2 Steve Miller Crucial Conversations (Agile Book Club!) 0 Nick Tuck Version Control Comparison 1 Dr. Mark Roth Release It (Agile Book Review

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 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 you can find the handout for Part 2 on the Agile4Defense GitHub page at: https://git.io/JeaO2 Risk The presence of uncertainty is the simple reason why Agile approaches work better than plan-driven approaches—it

herel!l Feb 2014 Mike Ballou Agile Principles Nick Tuck XP Prctices shawn stumme Continuous Delivery Josh Wade Cyber Security through Agile Mar 2014 Nick Tuck Maximizing Retrospectives Ray Page Open Agile Topics Apr 2014 Jason Beranek Application Transparency Ed Snodgrass Awesomeness through Stable Teams Mike Contracting Agile Projects May 2014 Adam Raggett Agile Transparency Nick Wenner Clean Code - Book Overview Kyle Baardson SAFe': Scaled Agile Framework Brandon MCcAllister