Types of an Agile Coach
Below are the different types of agile coaches:
1. Agile Team Facilitator
The focus is on a single team. The role of the Agile Team Facilitator(ATF) is broader than conducting meetings. The person must also guide the team through the paradigm shifts and lead them toward collaboration and self-organization. Ultimately, ATF’s role is to make sure that Agile works within the team.
- The focus is on a single team.
- The goal is to help a single team transition to agile and increase the team’s productivity.
- The agile team facilitator’s role is to make sure that Agile works within the team.
2. Agile Coach
An Agile coach is concerned with spreading Agile at a multi-team level and throughout the organization.
- They have prior experience as an agile team facilitator.
- Their role is to spread agile at the multi-team level and throughout the organization.
- They are responsible for integrating agile teams.
- Mentoring and coaching of agile team facilitators.
- Measuring the results of the transition to agile.
3. Enterprise Agile Coaching
It works at the enterprise level as the name suggests. The coach is not mainly concerned with day-to-day tasks but is concerned about the overall structure of an organization.
- They work at the enterprise level.
- They should have a good grasp of at least some enterprise agile frameworks like SAFe, LeSS, etc.
- They are less involved in the day-to-day task of helping teams to implement agile.
- They are responsible for helping to change the overall structure of the company to facilitate the agile principles.
What is an Agile Coach?
An agile coach is a project management professional that helps to scale Agile practices across a team or organization. They enable teams or organizations to be more flexible, transparent, and efficient. So basically, an Agile Coach is a person who knows the various best practices of various processes of Agile. Also, this person guides the other members who are new in the team about Agile processes, as well as experienced ones. It also looks out for any loopholes for the new team. One needs to have both patience and the presence of mind to become a good coach, as it is not an easy task.
- The person is an Agile Process Expert, who knows the best of the process involved.
- It is not biased.
- It is an Agile Expert.
- The coach is generally not from an organization.
- It has implemented Agile Processes across different cultures and environments.
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