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