- What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?
I am at the beginning of my path on becoming an Agile coach. I had been trying to guide several projects I participated in towards agility. In 2007 I started up an Agile community of Ukraine (translated link) ...Did I tell I live in Ukraine?) and since that time I've have been consulting folks on this topic.
Being a coordinator of the community I organize conferences /gatherings and this is how I met Naresh. He did a great favor coming down to Ukraine to present his topic on Distributed Agile.
In later 2007 I started up a consulting company, we call ourselves the SCRUMguides (see translated link) and did a bunch of Scrum-related trainings.
- What do you plan to learn /explore at this conference?
Well, I am interested in pretty much anything related to Agile and coaching. Since I am asked to name some topics, here are the ones I am particularly interested in discussing:
- Coaching in distributed/outsourcing environment
that in Ukraine 80% of the software market is outsourcing and distributed
development and it makes it extremely hard to talk to the decision makers.
The best who I can dream on talking are the CEOs/CTOs of the service
providers (not the client side Product Owners), and because of the built-in
conflict of interests (service providers and clients), it is a challenge to
get a buy-in from them for Agile adoption.
- Assessing Agile coach's job
indicators for this? When a company says they no longer need you as a coach,
is it because they reached they boundary and cannot become more Agile for
now, or just it is just you sucked as a coach?
- Timing needed for proper Agile adoption
- How do you plan to contribute?
I am planning to talk a lot to different people (in my broken English
). This open-space conferences are for, right? 