Badass Agile Coaching Skills Masterclass

Scrum Events is proud to co-host a masterclass for agile coaches with the "coach of coaches", Bob Galen.

Existing coach training and certification programs seem to be ALL focused on team coaching and (professional coaching, mentoring, and facilitation) competencies. While these certainly have value, we believe the over-focus on these has led to insufficiently balance-skilled and enabled Agile Coaches.

Given that, in this Masterclass, we will have Self-Mastery dynamics, Organizational (Leadership & System) Coaching skill development, higher-impact & value Agile Coaching stances, effectively communicating, the importance and impact of grounding your Agile Coaching on Ethics, and how to demonstrate, communicate, and confirm the Value you’re creating as an Agile Coach

This master class runs for 15 weeks. Each week includes 2 hours with the trainers, 1 hour in a practice cohort, and 1 hour for individual assignments.

Reimagining Agile Coaching

Existing coach training and certification programs seem to be ALL focused on team coaching and (professional coaching, mentoring, and facilitation) competencies. While these certainly have value, we believe the over-focus on these has led to insufficiently balance-skilled and enabled Agile Coaches.

Given that, in this Masterclass, we will have—

  • More focus on Self-Mastery dynamics and their impact on your overall coaching effectiveness.
  • More focus on Organizational (Leadership & System) Coaching skill development.
  • More focus on higher-impact & value Agile Coaching stances—Advising, Transforming, Leading / Modeling, Serving Product.
  • More focus on effectively communicating (Storytelling, crucial conversations, radical candor) as an Agile Coach.
  • More focus on the importance and impact of grounding your Agile Coaching on Ethics.
  • More focus on how to demonstrate, communicate, and confirm the Value you’re creating as an Agile Coach—or how to gain Skin-in-the-Game.
  • More conversational practice—both within each class and within your learning teams.

To our knowledge, no Agile Coaching programs have this pragmatic, advising-based, and value-driven focus.

Schedule

The class will run every Tuesday from 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST (18:00-20:00 CET), beginning on January 28, 2025, and running for 14 consecutive weeks, ending on April 22, 2025.

Each week includes 2 hours with the trainers, 1 hour in a practice cohort, and 1 hour for individual assignments.

Cancellation Policy

Registrations are non-refundable, but substitutions will be easily allowed with advance notice.

Your Course Facilitators

Bob Galen has held senior leadership roles within software development organizations since the early 1990s. Always a student of leadership, he’s been at the forefront as management and leadership techniques have moved toward “the team.” An early adopter of agile methods, Bob has had in-the-trenches experience building three successful agile technical organizations that have served as models of “agile done right.”

Currently, he is president of RGCG, a boutique agile coaching firm.

Bob has broad and deep experience leveraging Extreme Programming, Scrum, and Kanban, as a practitioner since the late 1990s. In 2013, Bob became one of ~90 CEC-level coaches with the Scrum Alliance. He coaches cross-organizationally around the world in helping clients achieve improved performance.

Often called a “Coach of Agile Coaches,” Bob has included his deep, pragmatic leadership and agile experiences in this class. You’ll leave with the skills, knowledge, ideas, and tactics to accelerate your agile leadership journey.

Peter Fischbach is an executive Scrum coach located in Berlin, Germany. He has been working in agile environments for 20 years. With Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland, Peter teaches teams and executives in Germany. In 2019, Jeff nominated him as one of 12 Licensed Scrum Fellows responsible for spreading his knowledge worldwide. Since 2015, he has worked with Jeff on Scrum@Scale, which is how agile organizations can be scaled.

Peter works with managers and executives in Scrum transitions in various industries, including software, banking, mobility, logistics, and science.

Peter is co-chairing the German Scrum Day, Germany's oldest and largest Scrum conference within the Scrum Events network. Scrum Events established eduScrum Germany in 2016, where Peter is an active team member.

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