Agile Coaching Bootcamp (ICP-ATF + ACC) Online, English | AgileLAB

The Agile Coach Bootcamp is designed to advance your mastery of Agile so that you're prepared to coach team members, managers, and executives.

Part 1: Agile Team Facilitator (ATF) Certification

Skills and tools of facilitation help: fight team dysfunctions, develop a spirit of cooperation, increase effectiveness and autonomy by solving problems and planning future activities while maintaining the necessary level of involvement of each team member. Thus, facilitation skills help increase the maturity and mutual support of Agile teams.

Training Agile Team Facilitation is useful for:

• Anyone who wants to perform as a facilitator at an Agile team
• Acting or potential leaders of Agile teams
• Project leads and project managers
• Scrum masters
• Acting or potential Agile coaches
• Line managers
• Anyone who wants to perform as a facilitator at an Agile team

In the program:

1. Agile facilitation fundamentals

• Basic concepts of Facilitation and Agile Facilitation:
• Understand the Agile facilitator's mindset
• Understand the role and functions of an Agile facilitator
• Learn how to create an environment for applying Agile practices
• Learn how to create team level collaborative working environment
• Learn how to support and assist teams to improve self-organization

2. Tools and methods of facilitation

• Understanding the facilitator's tools in the context of Agile teamwork:
• Basic facilitation methods
• Facilitation techniques for large and heterogeneous groups
• Working meetings facilitation tools and methods to solve problems under tight deadlines

3. Agile practices facilitation

Leading an Agile team to a successful result as the main objective of the Agile facilitator; methods for achieving it:

• Recognize common obstacles in an Agile team's work
• Assist team members in overcoming difficulties when applying key Agile practices
• Apply common facilitation techniques to key Agile practices
• Support teams and project delivery
• Improve planning and other iteration activities
• Conduct better retrospectives

Training helps to:

• Master the basics of facilitation and its key tools and methods
• Identify the potential pitfalls of the workflow, and learn how to avoid them
• Learn to plan and conduct team activities
• Learn how to create exciting and effective team activities
• Teach each team member to contribute to the effectiveness of shared work

As an outcome of this course you will get :

• Post-pack - a letter with additional materials, a list of articles and literature for self-study.
• Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) international certificate and a personal profile on the portal of the international consortium on agile methodologies ICAgile.com

• After training support
• Access to Facilitation Tools

Part 2: Coaching Agile Teams (ACC) Certification

This certification introduces participants to foundational team coaching skills and team development concepts for starting and growing teams while focusing on teams and organizations as human systems. A key part of this certification focuses on developing an understanding of the professional coaching skillset and the value of honing these skills to serve individuals on an agile team.

Training is useful for:

Agile Coaches or aspiring coaches with a passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn and practice facilitation, professional coaching, mentoring, and teaching in service of Agile teams. Other relevant roles include ScrumMasters, Iteration Managers and Agile Project Managers.

Although it is not a formal prerequisite, we have found that this certification is best pursued after Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF).

Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) helps to:

• Better understand the problems and needs of the business;
• Learn to plan and conduct big events at the company level;
• Detect potential pitfalls of the transformation process and learn how to avoid them;
• Learn the basics of coaching and its key tools;
• Use coaching tools to find a new use for common Agile practices.

As an outcome of this course you will get :

• Post-pack - a letter with additional materials, a list of articles and literature for self-study.
• ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) international certificate and a personal profile on ICAgile.com.
• After training support
• Access to Facilitation Tools

In the program:

1. Development in The Agile Coaching Discipline

• Development Path for Agile Coaching
• The Agile Team Facilitation Mindset
• The Agile Coaching Mindset

2. Coach as Facilitator

• Foundational Facilitation Skills
• Conducting a Facilitated Session
• Facilitating Collaborative Meetings
• Skillfully Facilitating the Agile Practices

3. Coach as Professional Coach

• Foundational Professional Coaching Skills
• The Coaching Conversation – Coaching for Action

4. Coach as Mentor

• Key Mentoring Skills
• Mentoring Agile Role Transitions

5. Coach as Teacher

• Key Teaching Skills
• Agile Mindset Shifts and Frameworks

6. Coach as Team Coach

• Foundational Team Coaching
• Describing Team Development
• Coaching the Journey toward High Performance
• Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the Team
• Handle Organizational Impediments

7. Set Boundaries for Agile Coaching

• Coaching Alliances and Contracts