What it takes to be an Effective Agile Coach with Lyssa Adkins

In an insightful interview with Lyssa Adkins, she describes herself as a leader of leaders. She works on her own leadership abilities as a first step.

She is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. Many of us know her as an author of Coaching Agile Teams which, as a top ranking Agile book for more than a dozen years.

In this interview, she shares her views and experiences on:

1. How can a leader evolve his/her leadership style as the team grows
2. Silliest myth about Agile coaching
3. Her idea of staying actively engaged without dominating team
4. Tips on becoming an effective Agile Coach in today’s world
5. Things to be avoided to become and effective Agile Coach

Interviewee: Lyssa Adkins (Author, Coaching Agile Teams)

Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams which, as a top ranking Agile book for more than a dozen years.

Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG #WomeninAgile programs.

In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute which has developed over 10,000 people in the knowledge, skills and being-ness needed to yield genuinely competent agile coaching. Since 2011, she has been a member of the ICAgile working committee that defines the learning objectives for Agile Facilitation and Coaching and she assesses candidates for the ICAgile-Expert in Agile Coaching competence-based certification. She has also served the Scrum Alliance as an application reviewer for the Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) designation. ​​

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)

Registered Agile Leader@Scale Workshop | 17-18 May 2024

INNOVATION ROOTS announces Registered Agile Leader@Scale workshop with Jeff Stuit (Fonder, Improvement School), to be held Online on 17-18 May 2024.

Registered Agile Leader@Scale course is built around real-world case studies and taught by those who have successfully transformed organizations around the globe. Participants will learn how to effectively and efficiently scale Scrum in their organization by optimizing people, processes, and products through the lens of leadership.

As a Registered Agile Leader@Scale, participants will be prepared to:

  • Understand how Scrum Framework scales across an organization to achieve improved results at an enterprise level
  • State the Scrum Values and explain how they foster a Values-Driven Culture
  • Be able to evaluate the necessity to divide a single large development team into smaller teams
  • Learn to identify the goals, inputs and outputs of Metrics & Transparency in Scrum@Scale
  • Be able to compare and contrast an Agile Leader and a Leader of an Agile Organization
  • Understand how to achieve and maintain an agile transformation and more

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