Agile Coaching Toolbox

• Golden Circle
• Coaching Competency Framework
• Arc of Coaching
• Four Stances: Doctor, Pair of Hands, Expert, Coach
• Coaching Mindset
• Coaching Contract
• Battlefield Map
• Meditation.. to help us be in the Present moment
• Active Listening, Reflective Feedback
• Scenario Lab
• Self Awareness and tools to identify Personality Types

• Briggs Myers
• Emotional Intelligence
• Mindfulness techniques
• Free Personality Test | 16Personalities
• StrengthsFinder 2.0
• DiSC Tests and DiSC Assessments Online
• Agile Bingo
• Powerful Questions
• 5:15 report
• Sphere of Influence
• Change Management
  • Elephant and the Rider
  • John Kotter’s 8-step model
  • RCA: Fish Bone diagram, Five WHYs
• Measuring Change
  • OKRs
  • Team Assessments
• Coach as a Teacher
  • Teaching stances: Sage on Stage, Meddler in the middle, Guide on the side
  • Training from Back of the room: the Six Trumps, the 4Cs
  • Content creation: multi-modal
• Standing up a new team
• Yellow Card
• Consensus Building techniques: Thumb Voting, Fist of Five, Dot Voting
• Tuckman model
• 5 dysfunctions of a team
• Murphy and Hogan’s Rocket Model
• Working Agreements and Conflict Resolutions
• Coaching Contract
• Impediments
• Sphere of Influence
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA): 5 Whys, Fish-bone diagram
• Feature burnup chart

• Concept to Cash Cycle
• Coaching Contract - Your working agreements with your Sponsors
• Event Canvas
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Create your own Planning Poker cards
• Agile Coaching Cards
• Agile Coaching Competency
• Agile Coaching Growth Wheel
  is a tool for Agile Coaches and ScrumMasters to help them reflect and grow themselves on their Agile journey. This tool is also best used with another coach to help support them.
  
• Agile Coaching - levels, scope
• Agile Maturity Matrics
• Levels of Maturity
• Sample -
  Agile Practice Maturity Checklist
• Agile Coach - interview questions
• Scrum Master's Coaching Plans Template - use this to communicate and track the growth of a Scrum Master
• Assessment Results Template - to assess team maturity
• Division Level Assessment - used to assess how mature an organization is (things beyond a team's control)
• NPS Assessment - assesses the net promoter score (NPS) from a business perspective related to how the team is delivering
• Scrum Master Maturity Model - questionnaire to determine how mature the SM is
• Scrum vs. Kanban comparison

• Event Canvas
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Planning Poker
• Innovation Games
• Tasty cupcakes
• Game Storming
• https://www.retrium.com/
• https://funretro.io/

Get a copy of Agile Coach's Bookshelf

• Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams, Danny Penman
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Improv-ing Agile Teams: Using Constraints To Unlock Creativity by Paul Goddard , Neil Mullarkey
• Five dysfunctions of a team
• Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
• Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby
• Growth Mindset
• Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz
• Unleash the Power of Storytelling: Win Hearts, Change Minds, Get Results by Rob Biesenbach
• Co-Active Coaching (the official textbook of all personal coaching)
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr and Larry Page
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to agile coaching
• Training from Back of the Room (TBR)

• www.nimeshSoni.com
• www.ICAgile.com
• Start with WHY.. https://youtu.be/IPYeCltXpxw
• Agile Timeline www.nimeshsoni.com/agile-timeline/
• Scenario Lab bit.ly/scenarioLab-List
• Sample Facilitator Guide for Scenario bit.ly/scenarioLab-facilitatorGuide
• Agile Manifesto www.AgileManifesto.org
• Standard Work https://www.nimeshsoni.com/standard-work/
• Four Helping Stances for Coaches
• Coaching vs Mentoring
• Training from Back of the Room http://bowperson.com/sharons-micro-courses/
• Three Levels of Agile Coaching https://www.odd-e.com/resources/papers/agile_coaching.pdf
• Coaching Contract
• Five traits of a High Performing Team (HPT)
• Playbook for Scrum Teams https://www.nimeshsoni.com/playbooks/

• Scannable
• Microsoft Office Lens
• Google Photos
• ‎Post-it® Plus
• LiSA - Liberating Structures App

• Why Agile? - F1 Pit Stops 1950 vs 2013: Quick Changeover
• “Greatness” by David Marquet
• Leadership and empowerment
• Marshmallow challenge
• Why does walking the wall feel natural and intuitive?
• Tom Wujec: Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast
• How Motivation is Driven by Purpose - and not Monetary Incentives
• The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day
• Training from Back of the Room (TBR) Micro Courses

• Communities of Practice (CoP)
• Lean Coffee
• Coaches’ Clinic
  • How to Run A Coaches Clinic
  • How to Run Coaches Clinic (PDF)
• Open Space
  • Open Space: Principles and Roles
  • Open Space and Scrum
• Speaker Series

• Spotify Retro Kit
• How we do large scale retrospectives
• Running Big Retrospectives at Spotify

Waterfall Overview

For those of you who are not in software delivery, here is a good explanation of what waterfall model is.