Tag Archives: Agile coaching
The waves of Agile – Full registration of the book launch webinar
On 5 July we launched my new book: “The waves of Agile, Value delivery in medium and large organizations”. In a 50-minute webinar I explain what the book is about, and we show the interview Vincent Verloop had with Wilco … Continue reading
XP2021 Conference: The changing role of the agile coach
On 17 June I hosted a session at the XP2021 conference organized by the Agile Alliance. The session was built around the experience report that was previously published about the changing role of the Agile Coach and consisted out of … Continue reading
The changing role of the agile coach
For the Agile Alliance I wrote an experience report about the changing role of the agile coach. In the report I share my thoughts on how the agile coach role develops and discuss how we can continue to deliver value … Continue reading
New Book – Manuscript sent to the publisher
Behind the scenes I am working hard on completing my next book. In 2016 I published a book called “Agile in the real world” which was all about how to get started with Scrum. Since then I learned a lot … Continue reading
AgiNext Conference London
When I heard that the AgiNext Conference was in London, I already saw my self standing on Trafalgar square, Piccadilly circus, etc. But this year it’s a virtual conference, we can’t go there… But we still can exchange ideas and … Continue reading
The Agile coach as a counselor – What we can learn from Star Trek
In the March issue of Bits & Chips I described the phases that organisations go through when adopting agile. In the three waves of agile I describe challenges that the organisation encounter and how the role of the Agile Coach … Continue reading
Virtual Agile Coach Awareness Training
Today we host the second day of our brand new Agile Coach awareness training. Together with Jeroen van Deelen, Han Niessing and Kelly Tchai I have been working hard on creating an on-line interactive training for agile coaches. After a … Continue reading
The 3 waves of Agile
In januari we published two articles on the Bits & Chips website. This month the two parts are published in the hardcopy magazine as one integrated story. I think it looks great! In the article I describe how I see … Continue reading
The role of the agile coach in the 3rd wave of Agile
Bits & Chips published the first part of my new article on agile transformations. Analysing the various organizations I’ve worked with, I distinguish three separate waves, each with its own challenges and scope. Understand the three waves of agile enables … Continue reading
Cake to celebrate the impact of Agile Adoption DPD
DPD has embraced agile as development method in order to respond better and faster to the demand of the (internal) customers. Together with colleague agile coach and a Scrum master from Valori we have assisted the organisation in starting-up and … Continue reading
Refinement as a quality enabler-lessons learned in an agile sales environment
I currently work as an Agile coach in a sales environment. A commercial environment differs from a general IT setting and applying agile in this volatile environment brings its own challenges. Fortunately, when you start translating these challenges to the … Continue reading
Valori Agile Hackathon – Innovation on a free Saturday
This video gives an impression of the Valori Agile Hackathon that we held on Valori HQ in Nieuwegein last Saturday. On a free Saturday we worked together on a number of items: Conditions for CI / CD, The Agile Tester … Continue reading
Agile Coachen – Het kalibreren van de MachTeam
My latest column on Agile Coaching has been picked up by AgileNieuws. AgileNieuws.nl is a Dutch website on Agile. For this community platform I translated my English text in to Dutch. You can read the dutch version here: Agile Coachen – … Continue reading
Derk-Jan de Grood 