If you’re a basketball fan and know who Allen Iverson is, then you’ll probably remember his infamous rant about “practice”. While he can never be questioned for the effort he put forth in games, he didn’t have a fondness for practice.
Now that doesn’t have much to do with coaching. Yet, I like the reference.
In this article, I did want to explore the notion of practice related to becoming a better coach. Both a professional coach and an agile coach.
A Sidebar
Not that long ago, I had a young woman sit down with me at a coaching clinic at the Scrum Alliance Gathering. She was a Millennial looking for career advice and she was very direct.
Bob, I want to achieve your level of expertise in the agile coaching community and I want to do it in a year. Please tell me how to do that.
Sadly, I don’t think my answer helped her nor was it well received. It was simply that…you can’t. And I wasn’t speaking from a position of ego. But from the position that it’s taken me ~20 years to acquire whatever skills I have in my journey. And I didn’t think that can easily be encapsulated and subsumed overnight or within a year.
