Where Coach is not there: Self Deployment Team?
Chandan Lal Patary
Empowering Business Transformation | Author of 8 Insightful Guides | The Scrum Master Guidebook | The Product Owner Guidebook | The High Performance Team Coaching Guidebook | The Leadership Guidebook
Most of the team members are asking this question. They can not afford for an coach. They were asking what can we do to achieve agility.
Most of the time , I give the print of the Manifesto and principles and ask them to implement these at their work context and come back to me if any help require.
After some time most of the team members comes back.They share that some of these they are not able to implement at their work context.They discuss about the challenges.
I gave them below picture to keep at their desk and think about this.
I also shared the scrum framework with them to implement at their work context and come back to me if there are any questions.
As they already said they can not afford a coach, so everything team is doing on their own.
Point to be noted, These team members are passionate, willing to learn, there are no pressure from anywhere. Their leaders are also interested to implement Agile.
They know Agile will increase business benefit.
They are on their assignment and they keep coming to me to ask some doubts.
I also spoke with their scrum master and ask her to implement below points
I also gave them below picture to implement and map at their work context and ask me any questions wherever require.It was almost 1-2 months over where these dialogues were happening.
I also told them All these 25 steps I would like to find instances at their work context.
I also gave them below picture to improve the team chemistry!
I also told them they need to build below aspects of self discipline,
I also told them after 6 months I will visit them and assess them on below points.
At the end we would like to find below HARD numbers some way , some where to measure the agility.
Possible ? Some teams are successful, some team members are keep coming for help, whom I am asking them to enroll for full day training provided by Agile CoE
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7 年I agree with Carl Adamson as I have had recent experience of this. I have joined many Agile/Scrum/Kanban groups here and have posed many questions. Everyone is so very keen to help and offer support where they can. My most recent question seemed to spark an interesting debate and I received many offers of free support to help over the hudle (Carl being one of those very kind people). They are not alone in their scenario as there will be plenty of others feeling/experiencing the same. Linked In is a fantastic way to quickly receive advice and support from others who have already been through what they are and are further along in their Agile journeys. Use this support and advise them to not to be afraid to experiment with small things and see if they work. If not fail fast and try something new. Just don't give up as they will come through it.
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7 年This article seems more like satire than real advice! Perhaps it lost something in translation?
If they are going by themselves, it will take years to get to a place where a good coach would get them in a year-year and a half. If you do simple math, there is no competition.
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7 年I appreciate they can’t afford a coach, so invite them to discuss their issues here on LinkedIn. A problem shared is problem halved. And it won't cost them anything!
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7 年I see you shared a lot of pictures and "told them"....What did you actually do to help them to improve independently?