Hiring an agile coach? You get what you ask for!

An agile coach has skills in training, coaching, facilitation, and mentoring. You should have experience in all four and have years of experience in multiple types of businesses. You also need experience in multiple agile frameworks, practices, and understand when to move between the different coaching stances. You need experience with transformation, business, and tech. This is all implied and is covered by one title Agile Coach. Most companies insisting on different title often don’t understand the role of a coach, or they understand the role of the coach but want to pay them for one role while expecting them to work in multiple roles, or they’ve been led astray by an AIC company who pretended this was all industry standard. 

Introduction: Who am I and why this talk

We'll go through slides from real agile coach job descriptions. For each we'll decipher what they are really asking for and will find out this is minor misunderstanding or a huge red flag.

We'll look at my ideal agile coach job description.

Conclusion

Q&A for remainder of the time box

Participants will:

• Understand the difference between misunderstandings and real red flags
• Assess the meaning behind what a job description is asking for
• Manage expectations when interviewing for these positions
• Formulate a plan for guiding misinformed companies 
• Recognize the level of dysfunction based on the job description

Agile on the Beach - New Zealand