Coaching agile teams, Lyssa Adkins, Agile Coaching

In collaboration with the Agile Boston user group, Lyssa is offering a discount of $305 to Agile Boston members. Lyssa presented at Agile Boston in March 2010, you can see the details of that session via this meeting link.

About Lyssa Adkins:

Lyssa Adkins is certified as a Scrum Trainer and is an Agile Coach. She came to Agile as a project leader with over 15 years’ project management success. Even with all that experience, nothing prepared her for the power and simplicity of Agile done well. Lyssa’s Agile experience, along with her professional coaching and training abilities, gives her the perspective needed to guide teams and Agile leaders to harness Agile as the competitive advantage weapon it was meant to be. She knows the transformation path is rocky.

As a large-scale program manager and director of Project Management Offices turned Agile Coach and Trainer, she has lived it herself. This makes her uniquely able to help others change their existing world to the Agile world. Lyssa holds triple certifications: Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB). She is also a professional co-active coach. She is the author of the book from Addison-Wesley’s Mike Cohn Signature Series, Coaching Agile Teams.Learn more about Lyssa Adkins here.

Here is some of the detail on the course content:

Coaching Agile Teams Course Description

Coaching Agile Teams is an experiential training course that covers both the being and the doing of Agile coaching. At the end of the course, you will be capable of applying many new tools and techniques, as well as your own mindset changes, to coach Agile teams to high performance.

This is a 2-day class running July 28 and 29, 2010.

This course is as practical as it is provocative, challenging Agile Coaches to rise to the fullest expression of their role and offering simple, practical ways to get there.

This course is for you if:

* You’ve had a few experiences as a ScrumMaster and it just doesn’t seem to be working for you.

* Your job as Scrum Master has become routine and you notice the teams seem to be going through the motions, too.

* Your teams get the practices and are doing well, but not getting the fabulous results you were supposed to get.

* Your are an awesome agile coach and you want the skills that will help you earn the Certified Scrum Coach designation.

* You are spread across many Agile teams because your managers think Agile Coaching is not a full-time job.

* You are not sure if the Agile Coach role is really right for you.

Course Topics

NOTE: This course is run using Scrum. The topics above are your initial learning backlog. We will certainly not cover all of these, but we will cover the ones that have the highest value for you.

- What is Agile Coaching? :: Why is it Important?

- The Being and the Doing of Agile Coaching

- Interlocking Roles: Agile Coach, Product Owner, Agile Manager

- When to Coach the Team, When to Coach Individuals

- Skills for Coaching Teams, Team Members, Product Owners, Managers,
Stakeholders

- Setting the Environment for High Performance Teams

- Coaching Styles and When to Use Them

- Starting up Great Teams...and Repairing Existing Teams

This course has limited seating and is registration is open now.

TESTIMONIAL

"I highly recommend Lyssa's coaching class. I am a participant in Lyssa's coaching circles program, as I actively coaching multiple teams. Lyssa is an excellent teacher of the skills needed for the challenging and rewarding role of agile coach.

"I can tell you that very little in my agile experience prepares me for coaching. Part mentor, part teacher, part facilitator of group processes, the coaching role is a very demanding one. Lyssa's coaching education offerings are very valuable if and when you want to go from good to great.

Lyssa is highly skilled and more importantly, she can clearly impart that expertise to each and every student."

--Dan Mezick

NOTE: As a special offer for this class, you may choose between a Coaching Agile Teams book or $35 off coaching services (either a webinar, one-on-one coaching or in a coaching circle).

REGISTRATION and LOCATION DETAILS

The COACHING AGILE TEAMS class is on July 28 and 29 2010. Location:

MicroTek, 25 Mall Rd # 2
Burlington, MA 01803-4156
(781) 359-3811

Class schedule:

Class starts at 900AM and ends at 500PM each day with a brief lunch break around noon.

Link to Google Map

Course Cost:

The course cost is $1300 for 2 full days of COACHING AGILE TEAMS training with Lyssa Adkins.

For Agile Boston members, via the discount code AGILEBOSTON, the course is $995 ($305 off!!) provided you REGISTER, with the discount code, by July 21st.

SEATING IS LIMITED.

REGISTER via Google Checkout for Coaching Agile Teams (July 28-29, 2010, Burlington MA).

NOTE: For multiple students from one organization, please register and pay for each student individually ... to obtain the discount for each and every student you register !

At purchase time, use coupon code AGILEBOSTON to qualify for a discount of $305 and a total price of $995 for 2 full days of Coaching Agile Teams. Click here for more information on Lyssa Adkins and Coaching Agile Teams.