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
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