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Below are some basic guidelines for participating coaches on how to run a coaching clinic during Big Apple Scrum Day. Experience and working models of previous clinics (Scrum Alliance, Agile Alliance) have being used. If you have other recommendations or additional ideas, please suggest 🙂 .
General Coaching Guidelines:
- Wear a coaching hat – we shall try to get some from Scrum Alliance folks (their ‘station’ should near the clinic)
- Walk-ins are OK if we have capacity
- Each session is limited to 15 min, unless there is no line – then you can attend to another person
- Appointments get priority over walk-ins
- It is OK to offer a business card for future consultation but Do NOT sell services or proactively solicit business, while coaching
- Paired coaching is OK if we have capacity (one coach works, another observes; then– debrief).
- Always, start off with understanding what brought a person to the clinic (e.g. “What brought you here?” or “How I can help?”)
- We can briefly retrospect at the end of the day or, if not possible, later via email
Participating Coaches (BOARD view):
This is us – the clinicians:
| Coach’s Name | Home base |
| Gene Gendel | New York, USA |
| Mary Thorn | Raleigh, NC |
| David Liebman | New York, USA |
| Faye Thompson | Hilliard, OH |
| Skylar Watson | Des Moines, IA. |
| Jim York | Leesburg, VA |
| Alexandr Kizhner | New York, USA |
| Amitai Schleier | New York, USA |
| Ben Scott | Richmond VA |
| Ross Hughes | Burlington, Vermont |
| Dustin Thostenson | Des Moines, IA. |
Coaches’ Availability (BOARD view):
In the morning, we shall put up a board in our working area. On this board, each coach will put his name (on a sticky), in a time slot when he/she is willing/able to offer service. Example below:
| Time Slot | Available Coach |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | |
| 12:30 – 1:00 | |
| 1:00 – 1:30 | |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | |
| 4:30 – 5:00 |
Note: Time slots should correlate to the Event’s Main Schedule
Appointment Schedule (BOARD view):
On this board, each attendee will put his/her name/discussion topic (on a sticky), into a time slot when they are planning to attend the clinic. Attendees may request multiple time slots, within reasonable limits. Each request = one sticky note. Example:
|
15-min Time Slot During |
Attendee Name/Discussion Topic |
| Registration | |
| Morning Session Part 1 | |
| Morning Break | |
| Morning Session Part 2 | |
| Lunch Break | |
| Afternoon Session Part 1 | |
| Afternoon Break | |
| Afternoon Session Part 2 |
Note: Time slots should correlate to the Event’s Main Schedule
BOARD: Coachee’s Response:
On this board, every clinic attendee will be asked to write a brief feedback on a sticky note (example from Orlando). They may or may not provide the name of a coach that offered assistance – it is up to them. We, the coaches, don’t have to watch them doing this. Once we are done with a coaching session, they can self-manage.
BOARD: Appointment Counter
On this board, we shall be collecting all sticky notes that were served. Attendees will be asked to post them there, after they attended the clinic.