how agile coaches help us win | brendan marsh | ltg-18
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Presentation given at Lean Tribe Gathering in Stockholm dec 10 2013.TRANSCRIPT
November 27, 2013
The Agile Coach Role @ SpotifyBrendan Marsh
How Agile CoachesHelp Us Win
Inspiration for this talk
What is an agile coach at Spotify?
3What do they do?
Why do we believe they help us win?
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24M active users. 6M paying subscribers.
20M songs.
Growing fast
30
3 years ago
Tribes ”Provide fast and
reliable access to all the world's music”
”Enable high product development speed while maintaining a
highly available service”
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
Growing fast
25030
10010
Now
7How do we scale?
• “Feel like a mini-startup”
• Self-organizing
• Cross-functional
• 5-7 engineers, less than 10
• Autonomous
Squad
P
C
Tribes ”Provide fast and
reliable access to all the world's music”
”Enable high product development speed while maintaining a
highly available service”
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
Squads
Agile Coaches
Individuals
Squads
Tribes
Scope of the Agile Coach
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The agile coach
Our primary goal: High performing teams and a high performing organization
Motivated people... building valuable, quality products...
...fast!
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How do we help them reach high performance?
By going above and beyond the call of an Agile Practitioner
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We definitely do the basics...
Scrum
Kanban
User stories
Stand ups
Retrospectives
Sprints
Planning PokerXP
Story PointsDemos
Agile - LeanPractitioner
Lyssa Adkins - The Agile Coaching Competency Framework
Agile - LeanPractitioner
Teaching
Mentoring
Coaching
Facilitating
Lyssa Adkins - The Agile Coaching Competency Framework
Agile - LeanPractitioner
Teaching
Mentoring
Coaching
Facilitating
TechnicalMastery
BusinessMastery
TransformationalMastery
Lyssa Adkins - The Agile Coaching Competency Framework
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Some recent examplesof this in practice
1 on 1 coaching
- Team members
- Product owners
- Chapter leads
- Senior management
Agile - Lean
TeachingMentoring
TechnicalBusiness
Coaching
Squad coaching- During standups
- Retrospectives
- Planning meetings
- We’re part of the team
Agile - Lean
TeachingMentoring
CoachingFacilitating
TechnicalBusiness Transformational
Practitioner
Mastery MasteryMastery
Team offsite- Full day(s) offsite
- Team building
- Problem Solving
TeachingFacilitating
Agile - LeanPractitioner
TDD/XP workshop- 2 day workshop
- Facilitated by coach and CL
- Focus on engineering skills
TeachingFacilitating
TechnicalMastery
Agile - LeanPractitioner
PO book club- Series of lunch and learns
- Challenges POs
- What is the impact of planned work?
TeachingFacilitating
BusinessMastery
Agile - LeanPractitioner
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Putting it alltogether
Section name
How do WE grow?
•Conferences / Meetups•Training / Workshop•Thought Leader Talks•Mentoring•Pairing•Agile Practices Sharing•Lean coffee•Unconference
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Section name
Recap
First level text•Second level – Third level– Fourth level
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Recap
Brendan MarshAgile [email protected]@brendanmarshbrendanmarsh.com