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Do you need an Agile Coaching Playbook?

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Do you need an Agile Coaching Playbook?

I happened upon the Boston Consulting Group paper entitled Why Your Agile Coaching Isn’t Working—And How to Fix It. 

Here’s a short snippet from the article that I want to use as a backdrop for several points—

The coaching playbook is especially useful when coaches run two-week “sprint” interventions with teams that need to improve a specific capability or to address performance gaps. The coach then chooses from hundreds of “battle-tested” interventions in the playbook that target that capability or performance gap, and designs a sprint plan based on it. At the end of the sprint, the coach and team evaluate the impact of the intervention. Reflecting on the effectiveness of the intervention and creating new ones also helps propagate and improve the catalog of interventions.

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Agile Playbooks

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Agile Playbooks

A while ago, I was talking to my colleague Mary Thorn about the notion of agile “playbooks”. Mary had been working with a client in NYC and had developed a playbook for their agile adoption and practices. From her perspective, developing these sorts of:

  • Guidelines

  • Rules

  • Methods

  • Standards

  • Guardrails

Were invaluable for helping a large organization effectively transforming with agile approaches.

During the development and deployment of the playbook, she asked me to share my playbook. And the very question caused me to pause.

I’ve been an agile coach for ~20 ears, so I certainly have the chops. But upon reflection, I realized that I’d never, ever developed a playbook for a client. And I sort of busted Mary’s chops a bit around the idea.

Why you might ask?

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