Agile and Kanban Coaching
Develop the internal competencies of your people with dedicated external help.
Today’s business reality requires companies to be highly flexible and able to respond quickly to change. The agile approach, makes it possible to achieve these goals. However, the transition “to agile” is not about the framework, tools, or terminology. It’s a change in mentality, organizational culture, and the right attitudes.
A big risk is when companies try to buy knowledge from the market in the form of consulting based on copying off-the-shelf solutions, or manual control by people who, by definition, will not stay with the organization for long.
On the other hand, many companies choose to implement the agile approach on their own, but this involves the risk of making avoidable mistakes and even working with anti-patterns, which is exactly how we should not work.
Is there an intermediate solution?
Yes, by internalizing knowledge and skills – thus building the company’s capital through external support in the form of agile coaching. By working together on real cases, employees acquire the skills and attitudes they need to operate successfully in an agile environment. The competencies gained in this way are capital that remains in the company even after the cooperation with the coach ends.
There are many different approaches to agile coaching available on the market, and it is important to avoid the cognitive errors of only proposing solutions in which the coach is experienced, acting unethically to prolong the relationship, or simply lacking pragmatic experience.
Therefore, we should look for specialists who fit into the “full stack” type of agile coach. Someone who knows a lot of methods, as communicates what he is not strong in, where he will recommend another approach and someone who will be a suitable promoter of it. I told about it in my presentation on the occasion of the ACEconf conference in Krakow in 2022:
If you are looking for professional, pragmatic help with:
- agile work methodologies, including those outside of IT (marketing, design, HR, Employer Branding, recruiting, legal services, customer support);
- Scrum Framework;
- Kanban Method;
- Scaling and organizing company processes using SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, or Kanban frameworks at scale;
- Building and executing strategies with OKR, or Hoshin kanri;
- systems thinking;
- Fostering self-organization in teams;
- Evolution of the organization according to the Team Topologies approach;
or simply want to see if professional agile coaching is something that can help your business then just let us know.
We are happy to verify this in a non-committal way