Last 12 Months

Question 1

What have you done over the past 12 months that provides evidence that you can succeed as an Agile Coach?

Answer 1

• Spent 3 months with the Scrum Master and Product Owner from Frictionless
• Crafted a 10 week program introducing the new APO for Pricing to Agile, Scrum and the Pricing Team. Spent 2 hours every Friday afternoon mentoring her.
• The above developed into a Friday afternoon coaching time for PO’s in which 8 people regularly attended each week from July of last year until now.
• Spent several sessions with the Insurance Team observing their stand-ups and helping to them to reduce waste (time) from 20 minute stand-ups to a few minutes.

Question 2

What is Lean?

Answer 2

• Get rid of waste
• amplify learning
• Decide as late as possible, deliver as fast as possible
• empower the team
• integrity
• see the big picture

Question 3

What is XP?

Answer 3

• Pair Programming
• TDD
• CI
• Small Releases
• Simplicity

Question 4

What is Design Thinking?

Answer 4

Empathize – with your users
Define – your users’ needs, their problem, and your insights
Ideate – by challenging assumptions and creating ideas for innovative solutions
Prototype – to start creating solutions
Test – solutions