An agile coach helps people, teams, and whole organizations get better at working in an agile way. The role is less about running ceremonies and more about growing capability, so that teams can keep improving long after the coach has moved on.
You'll start with what an agile coach does day to day, from working with individual teams to advising leaders. Next you'll compare the coach with the Scrum Master, two roles that are often confused, and see where their scope and focus differ. The module closes with the coaching stances, such as teacher, mentor, facilitator, and coach, and the skills that tell a coach when to use each one.
With a clear picture of the role, you'll be ready for the next module, Scrum Framework, where you look at the most widely used agile framework and the events, roles, and artifacts a coach needs to know well.
An overview of the agile coach role, covering team-level and organization-level coaching, the day-to-day activities involved, and how a coach measures their impact.
How the two roles overlap and where they differ in scope, focus, and time horizon, and how to tell which one a team or organization actually needs.
The Agile Coaching Competency Framework by Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd, covering the stances a coach moves between (mentor, teacher, facilitator, and professional coach) and the areas of mastery that make a coach effective.