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		<title>By: Pascal Gugenberger</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the quick reaction! I had a look at your model and I think you have touched an issue here. What people involved in an Agile Development process need to know is definitely different from a conventional knowledge-portfolio. The role &quot;coach&quot; is probably unique in that it often changes the life and career of people that have come into contact with Agile, started out as an &quot;Evangelist&quot; and eventually become &quot;Dedicated Champion&quot; (Linda Rising) in their organization. (Me being one of them).

So let me give you some feedback on your model:
- with&quot; apprentice&quot; you mean &quot;apprentice coach&quot;?
- In my opinion it takes much longer to become a &quot;master&quot; than &quot;more than one year&quot;. A master should have the ability to coach coaches.
- I don&#039;t understand why you mention &quot;Agile One SDM&quot; here. Shouldn&#039;t it be &quot;one agile framework&quot;. What about Scrum?
- There is the technical coach that coaches developers into adopting agile coding practices and design approaches. This is a whole skillset by itself (emergent design, TDD, paper prototyping, continuous integration, efficient pair programming, who to actually automate acceptance tests, ...). All of this is non-trivial.
- There is the organizational aspect (Agile Estimating and Planning), how to become an agile organization, ...
- There is the psychological-aspect: how to do retrospectives, &quot;Software for your Head&quot;, ..., how to deal with sceptics, how to lead people in an agile manner
- There is a host of different settings: 37signals-like small teams, large projects with scaling problems, really dysfunctional teams, out-sourcing, selling agile project management methods to customers
- Surrounding topics: ideal workplace environment, agile contracting, open-space conferences, history of agile, lean manufacturing, and many more.

So, is your model some sort of guide what Coach apprentices should do/read/know to become masters? Maybe it should then contain things like:
- work in a big company and try to introduce Agile methods there
- work in an ideal environment and experience what a hyperproductive agile team feels like
- work in a coaching environment where you get to know many different settings.
- work together with one of the master coaches and learn from him/her.
- Read these books: .....

Or should it help companies looking for agile coaches?

Ok, enough random ramblings. I&#039;d love to hear more.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the quick reaction! I had a look at your model and I think you have touched an issue here. What people involved in an Agile Development process need to know is definitely different from a conventional knowledge-portfolio. The role &#8220;coach&#8221; is probably unique in that it often changes the life and career of people that have come into contact with Agile, started out as an &#8220;Evangelist&#8221; and eventually become &#8220;Dedicated Champion&#8221; (Linda Rising) in their organization. (Me being one of them).</p>
<p>So let me give you some feedback on your model:<br />
- with&#8221; apprentice&#8221; you mean &#8220;apprentice coach&#8221;?<br />
- In my opinion it takes much longer to become a &#8220;master&#8221; than &#8220;more than one year&#8221;. A master should have the ability to coach coaches.<br />
- I don&#8217;t understand why you mention &#8220;Agile One SDM&#8221; here. Shouldn&#8217;t it be &#8220;one agile framework&#8221;. What about Scrum?<br />
- There is the technical coach that coaches developers into adopting agile coding practices and design approaches. This is a whole skillset by itself (emergent design, TDD, paper prototyping, continuous integration, efficient pair programming, who to actually automate acceptance tests, &#8230;). All of this is non-trivial.<br />
- There is the organizational aspect (Agile Estimating and Planning), how to become an agile organization, &#8230;<br />
- There is the psychological-aspect: how to do retrospectives, &#8220;Software for your Head&#8221;, &#8230;, how to deal with sceptics, how to lead people in an agile manner<br />
- There is a host of different settings: 37signals-like small teams, large projects with scaling problems, really dysfunctional teams, out-sourcing, selling agile project management methods to customers<br />
- Surrounding topics: ideal workplace environment, agile contracting, open-space conferences, history of agile, lean manufacturing, and many more.</p>
<p>So, is your model some sort of guide what Coach apprentices should do/read/know to become masters? Maybe it should then contain things like:<br />
- work in a big company and try to introduce Agile methods there<br />
- work in an ideal environment and experience what a hyperproductive agile team feels like<br />
- work in a coaching environment where you get to know many different settings.<br />
- work together with one of the master coaches and learn from him/her.<br />
- Read these books: &#8230;..</p>
<p>Or should it help companies looking for agile coaches?</p>
<p>Ok, enough random ramblings. I&#8217;d love to hear more.</p>
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