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AGILE COACHING
Joe Wilde is an Agile Coach with over 10 years of Agile experience.
Actionable steps from the first call.
What I can help with
| Best Practices | Outlining best practices for a team new to Agile |
| Role Coaching | Guidance for Scrum Masters and Product Owners |
| Accountability | Fostering a culture of accountability within your team |
| Communication | Communicating wins to the wider organisation |
| Motivation | Understanding issues that might be impacting motivation |
| Velocity | Improving your team's velocity |
| Prioritisation | Enabling clear and confident prioritisation |
| Pressure | Reducing pressure to deviate from sprint plans |
| Churn | Reducing your expensive developer churn |
| Dependencies | Mitigating complex dependencies between teams |
The Pillars of my Approach to Agile
EMPOWER PEOPLE
People who feel safe and empowered are radically more productive than those who fear getting something wrong.The goal is for teams to be self-governing, empowered to make decisions internally and have the ability to pivot where needed.
COMMUNICATION IS CRITICAL
Agile can seem scary, especially to those outside of the team who need it to work but don't have any ability to influence outcomes.Learning to communicate outwardly through discovery and demos is essential.
OUTCOMES OVER PROCESS
It's not tools and processes that matter. It's mindset and outcomes.It's easy to become obsessed with rituals, tools, and reporting. While they can be helpful, they should never be the goal.
Frequently Asked Questions
An Agile Coach is someone experienced in Agile development who guides an existing team into achieving consistent high performance.
A fractional Agile Coach is a highly experienced coach that might work across 2 or 3 clients. The benefit is you get all their knowledge without the expense of a full-time role. This means you can focus spend on developers, designers and researchers.
You get all my knowledge from years in Agile consulting without paying for me full-time. I don't need access to your IT systems, and you can avoid a lengthy RFP process.
You certainly can, and they will likely do a good job. The issue is their incentives are not aligned. For a large consulting firm to make Agile Coaching worthwhile, they will need to sell you additional services.
I have experience with Azure DevOps, Trello, Jira, Confluence and Basecamp, amongst others, although it is worth noting that most Agile issues are not about the tool.
My background
My Agile Roles
Over a decade working in Agile teams, I worked as:
An Agile Coach
A Product Owner
A Scrum Master
A User Researcher
A (not very good) developer
Where I have worked
I spent several years in a senior role at Accenture, guiding a range of Agile teams
I have worked across Financial Services, Tech, Energy & Utilities, and the Public Sector
The majority of my work has been in San Francisco, Chicago and London
I use Kanban every day to run my own business
What I have worked on
5-star customer-facing mobile apps
Enterprise admin tools and dashboards
Wildfire Avoidance Programs
Enterprise fieldworker solutions
SaaS solutions
$2450 / £1950
Lite
Quick and low-cost. I will work with your team over 1 full sprint cycle.
Typical Duration: 2-3 weeks
Attend all Agile rituals
Conduct 1-2-1s discussions with all team members and provide feedback
Review a selection of user stories and tasks to provide feedback on how to improve them.
Provide actionable guidance on where the team can make improvements
$4900/ £3900
Full
Working across 2 sprint cycles, I will spend time on both discovery and accountability to help the team get the most out of Agile Coaching.
Typical Duration: 4-5 weeks
Attend all Agile rituals over two sprint cycles
Provide 1-2-1 follow-ups for each team member
Review and assess backlog to identify opportunities to improve discipline, remove complexity, and simplify prioritization
Focus on accountability and driving changes through in the second sprint.
Let's talk
Ongoing
I am available for ongoing support where we agree it will add value to the team. In addition to the full service you will receive:
Typical Duration: Flexible
Ongoing team coaching
1-2-1 coaching for Scrum Masters and Product Owners
Improving velocity
Full Backlog review
Vendor analysis of Agile tools
Email - Joe@outlandia.co
Company number - 14147396
VAT number - 416941195