The simplest way to engage us is to go to our Contacts page and enter the nature of your request. We promise to reply within 2-3 business days with a reply to set up a more face-to-face conversation via Zoom.

You can get a lot of information about us from the website and the web. Things to look for include:

• A background of our experience & skills

• Our coaching approach and personal coaching

• Selection criteria for finding an agile coach

• Our blog is a great way to get a picture of our experience, strategies, tactics, and general approaches to "agile"

• Bob is a frequent speaker at national and international events, so a simple Google Search for "Bob Galen" will give you quite a lot of background information

• And there is LinkedIn as well

• And finally, you can listen to our podcast, the Meta-Cast

Our Core Service Strategy

Leaders go first

We've noticed a distinct pattern during the past 20 years of our agile coaching experience. It’s both an anti-pattern and a success pattern.

• In cases where the leadership team fully embraced agile principles and learning, going first and personally leading the effort, the probability of a successful and sustained transformation was high.

• In cases where the leadership team delegated “going Agile” downward towards their teams and organizations, not personally engaging or leading the effort, then the probability of a successful and sustained transformation was low.

Given that, in the last few years, RGCG and our coaches have adopted a—Leaders Go First strategy in our engagements. We’re not stuck on the specifics of it, but we want our client leaders to understand the critical part their sustained engagement creates in their overall success.

You can read more about the dynamics of this strategy here.

Not Everyone is a "Coach"

We want you to realize that we are different. We have 20+ years of in-the-trenches agile experience at all levels of the organization. We've coached individual teams, technology groups, and entire organizations. And we've been successful at assisting teams to achieve the consistently high-performance levels that are the hallmark of solid agile teams.

We're not just any agile coaching and consulting firm. We've got the deep and varied experience that drives results. And all of our partner coaches bring this variety and depth into play for our clients. We think it's one of the things that truly differentiates us from the crowd.

Bob is also a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) Emeritus, one of less than ten on the planet. That credential amplifies not only our general coaching experience, but our ability to coach at the Enterprise or Organizational level. 

Please read our article on: How to select an Agile Coach . We think it's an even handed view to the critical selection factors in finding a great guide for your agile journey.

And here's an overview of our Agile Coaching practice. 

Agile Coaching

As you see in our coaching overview, we prefer coaching all 3-levels of the organization. 

• Team-level

• Management-level

• Leadership-level

This is truly the only way to achieve a balanced agile transformation. We leverage the our iCAgile ICP-LEA Agile leadership class and the Leadership Circle Profile tool as an entry point for coaching at the upper two levels. 

Most of our coaching proposals contain a strategy that is 3-tiered in approach that we've found to be the most effective.

Agile Coaching Community of Practice or Centers of Excellence

Partnership Program

Agile Coaching in the world of Business Agility can be a uniquely challenging space. One of those challenge areas is with your Agile Coaching Communities of Practice. A group encompassing your Agile Coach and Scrum Master teams that encourages their ongoing collaboration, learning, and growth. Which can be a centerpiece of your overall impact and value proposition or it can be another boring group meeting.

Bob Galen is the author of Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching. He’s an accomplished coach with a long history of coaching from the team to the boardroom. His personal goal is to disrupt, challenge, and raise the professionalism and craft of Agile Coaching everywhere. And there is no better place to do it than within your Communities of Practice!

If you need help with your Agile Coaching group practices, contact Bob to explore how he can help you and your coaches become more Badass in delivering real Value.

He can help with—

• Setting up and kicking off your CoP.

• Re-energizing your CoP or CoE (LACE) by bringing fresh ideas in.

• Group and 1:1 mentoring, modeling, and coaching.

• Visiting periodically to keep the momentum going.

• Assisting you in leveraging the Comparative Agility, Agile Coaching PI in your learning journeys.

• Speaking at and participating in company-wide events.

Agile training

What makes our courses different?

Many other agile courses, certification level and not, are simply too academic, beginner level, game focused, and purist in nature. For example, we can't tell you how often we've encountered CSM certified individuals who can't begin to effectively jump-start a Scrum team or write a solid User Story. That's just sad.

So, what makes us different? First, it's the real-world experience that Bob and our other instructor/coaches bring to the table. We've all been practicing "Agile" for over 10 years. Bob has been doing it from the very beginning, since the late 1990's. Not just writing or talking about it...but doing it!

And every instructor has deep, practical, in-the-trenches experience. So, when they share a story, suggest approaches, or offer advice, it's always steeped in pragmatic, real world experience. This combination ensures that you'll come out of our classes with as much entry to advanced level information as the time will allow. In fact, we always customize our classes on-the-fly to your highest priority needs and challenges.

Sounds "agile" doesn't it?

We have the capability to train you on Scrum, Kanban, Scaling Options, Product Ownership, Scrum Mastery, Coaching, and Leadership. Reach out and we can discuss a tailored package of training that meets your needs.

Dynamic & Passionate

Bob has a 20+ year track record of actively sharing various software development and leadership topics with diverse audiences here and abroad.

If there's one consistent theme we hear from attendees, Bob is a passionate technologist, dynamic communicator, and pragmatic thought leader. Here is an overview that highlights Bob's speaking experience.

Speaking for your Organization

If you're looking for a dynamic keynote or software-related presentation for your organization or event, we encourage you to reach out for our availability. We typically are booked 6-9+ months in advance, so it is best to reach out early.

You can review samples of Bob’s public speaking on his Youtube channel.