What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?
As an Extreme Programming developer at a completely agile software company, Menlo Innovations, I am a coach everyday on the team. While all of our developers are created equal each developer is responsible for coaching each other through teamwork and constructive communication. We are frequently bringing new people onto our team. When I, or any one else, is paired with a new team member we become their coach giving them a hands on immersion not only to our code base but our agile process too. I find that I partially enjoy teaching others about our process and I often find myself part of our public training classes as co-teacher.
I also have experience as a speaker at conferences such as PMI and Great Lakes Software Excellence. I was also accepted to the international XP conference where I had paper published in their proceeding but was unable to attend due to travel limitations.
Basically I feel coaching has been a big part of who I am. I have coached athletes, students, peers, team members and co-workers. It is a learned skilled but I find joy from helping others through coaching.
What do you plan to learn /explore at this conference?
I have found that learning and exploring start with breaking boundaries. Typically with teams or groups the boundaries tend to be social. Mostly we find it hard to be social with people we don’t know. I believe at the conference by sharing our experiences with each other we can start to break the social boundaries and learn new ways to refine our coaching skills.
How do you plan to contribute?
Contributing is simply done by sharing. I plan to share all of my tips, techniques and strategies for coaching others in our process.
As an Extreme Programming developer at a completely agile software company, Menlo Innovations, I am a coach everyday on the team. While all of our developers are created equal each developer is responsible for coaching each other through teamwork and constructive communication. We are frequently bringing new people onto our team. When I, or any one else, is paired with a new team member we become their coach giving them a hands on immersion not only to our code base but our agile process too. I find that I partially enjoy teaching others about our process and I often find myself part of our public training classes as co-teacher.
I also have experience as a speaker at conferences such as PMI and Great Lakes Software Excellence. I was also accepted to the international XP conference where I had paper published in their proceeding but was unable to attend due to travel limitations.
Basically I feel coaching has been a big part of who I am. I have coached athletes, students, peers, team members and co-workers. It is a learned skilled but I find joy from helping others through coaching.
What do you plan to learn /explore at this conference?
I have found that learning and exploring start with breaking boundaries. Typically with teams or groups the boundaries tend to be social. Mostly we find it hard to be social with people we don’t know. I believe at the conference by sharing our experiences with each other we can start to break the social boundaries and learn new ways to refine our coaching skills.
How do you plan to contribute?
Contributing is simply done by sharing. I plan to share all of my tips, techniques and strategies for coaching others in our process.