30 people were served at NYC Scrum User Event – Coaching Clinic!!! Lots of fun and interesting discussions.
Questions & Discussion Topics with Coaches:
- “Removing the noise”
- Growing agile advisory practice
- Picking up after failed agile transformations
- Transition from waterfall to agile
- Scrum at enterprise organization
- Scrumming in agency setting
- How to get good practice with Scrum?
- Career in Scrum/Agile
- Implementing Agile culture: values, alignment, hiring
- Empowering genius without dis-empowering the rest
- Scrum attendance
- Breaking Epics into correctly sized stories
- How does Infrastructure work?
- Effective retrospectives
- Issues with distributed teaming (e.g US s. UA)
- On-board offshore coaches
- Organizational change
- Coaching non-dedicated teams
- Moving into a coaching role
- Test automation
- Working with untrained teams.
- How to teach principles to old school mindset people
- Advance from SM to agile coach
Feedback from Attendees to Coaches:
- “Thanks for letting me know that I am not crazy and there is hope”
- “Understanding ‘hierarchy’ of teams and the company in which they operate”
- “Useful advice on splitting between technical debt rewrite and big value”
- “Scaling with Scrum vs. Kanban”
- “Good feedback confirmed that some of my direction is correct”
- “Great suggestion to take back with me. Definitely will look to reach out for future questions. Thank you.”
- “Very good feedback on story points and velocity”
“This was extremely helpful, including workable solutions” - “Awesome advice”
- “Great suggestions”
- “Very valuable”
- “Got great suggestions on PO collaboration”
- “Awesome. Appreciate real world examples”
- “Awesome inputs”
- “Very interesting and helpful session”
- “The coach asked all the right questions to get to the root of the challenges I am seeing”
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