Premise
It's difficult to start a new process, but a coach can
make it easier. A coach is part developer and part manager. Coaches help
a team stay on process and they help the team learn. A coach brings in some
outside perspective to help a team see themselves more clearly.
We'll use a combination of lectures, games, and exercises to explore and
practice skills that coaches (and team members!) can use.
You will get...
- A deeper look at the coach's role and team
formation
- Tools to help communicate better
- Practice with charts, retrospectives, and
other feedback tools
- Practice diagnosing team problems
Format
- Half day.
- Mix of lecture, exercises, and discussion.
Background Reading
Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment, George
Leonard. Plume, 1992.
Software For Your Head, Jim McCarthy and Michele McCarthy.
Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Books for Coaches (reading list) |
Audience
Coaches, budding coaches, and developers on XP or agile teams.
Offerings
Offered at XP Agile Universe '04, Agile Development Conference '03,
XP/Agile Universe '03, and XP Universe '02.
Facilitators
William Wake (William.Wake@acm.org,
www.xp123.com) is a programmer, the
author of Extreme Programming Explored, and the inventor of the
Test-First Stoplight and the Programmer’s Cube.
Ron Jeffries has been developing software since 1961, when he
accidentally got a summer job at Strategic Air Command HQ, and they
accidentally gave him a FORTRAN manual. He and his teams have built
operating systems, language compilers, relational and set-theoretic database
systems, manufacturing control, and applications software, producing about a
half-billion dollars in revenue, and he wonders why he didn't get any of it.
For the past few years he has been learning, applying, and teaching the
Extreme Programming discipline. Ron is the primary author of Extreme
Programming Installed. Ron is a trainer and consultant at Object Mentor,
Inc, and can be reached at
RonJeffries@acm.org
Also of Interest
Extreme Programming
Explored - A two- or five-day introduction to
XP.
Consulting services |