Coach’s Tools

Below, are some light-weight coaching tools that can be effectively used in conversations with customers (classroom setting and individual discussions):

Impact of appropriate motivation on individual’s ability to evolve: relation of Evolution of Human Operating System on Evolution of Tribal (Organizational) System:
Individual Performance, Incentives, Bonuses Effect of individual performance appraisals and subjective/discretionary allocation of monetary intensives on organizational health.  Conventional (more traumatizing) ways to allocate intensives.
Expansion of Definition of Done (DoD) – how to minimize ‘Undone’ work, while gradually expanding DoD.
Individual Performance, Incentives, Bonuses Effect of individual performance appraisals and subjective/discretionary allocation of monetary intensives on organizational health.   Alternative (less traumatizing) ways to allocate intensives.
Roles & Responsibilities in basic Scrum and Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) settings:
Organizational Ecosystem: correlation between system variables at various System levels
Causal Loop Diagrams (CLD) & System Thinking – Example 1
Causal Loop Diagrams (CLD) & System Thinking – Example 2
Mind Maps Cheat Sheet for Class use: Color
Mind Maps Cheat Sheet for Class use: Black & White
LeSS “Hexagon of Values”
Organizational Flattening with LeSS
“WBS” (agile way) – 1 pager
Understanding Scrum Roles through System Modelling (CLD)
Understanding Root Causes of Command & Control Behavior through System Modelling (CLD)
Product Definition Expansion Work-sheet
Agile Vendor Selection Cheat-Sheet
Agile Intro – 1-pager
How to Ensure Effective Coaching?
Samples of Agile Metrics
Challenges With Agile Training: Examples, Reasons, Consequences
Scrum Anti-Patterns (not all are equally easy to identify)
Agile Self-Assessment Worksheet (ASAW)
LeSS Game: Team Design (Feature Teams vs. Component Teams)
Crossword “Legacy Ecosystem”
The 5 WHYs: Getting to a Root Cause