Coach

An OpenAgile Coach helps teams acquire team-level capacities. An OpenAgile Coach takes a big picture view of the team and assists the team to gain a stronger sense of process, growth of abilities, and delivery of value.

People who are serving teams in this capacity can record their insights in the Reflection Repository under the section Reflections from people serving as Coaches. When you have learned something, add it to the Learning Repository in the section What we have learned as OpenAgile Coaches.

'''What do you need to learn, know, read, or understand to coach an OpenAgile Team? Add your insights below:'''

Reading:

- Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins

- something about systems thinking

- Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed by Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, Michael Patton

Writing: Essay on applying systems thinking to coaching agile teams

Training: 2-Day Coaching Agile Teams training

Training: ???

Practice: ???

100% on Coach exam

Be mentored by another coach while coaching one or more teams

Submit documentation of improvement in OpenAgile rules adoption

Submit case study or academic article on OpenAgile wiki

Endorsement from ? (two recognized Team Members, one each of recognized Process Facilitator and Growth Facilitator, one external stakeholder)

Must be completed no more than 1 year after obtaining/renewing PF, GF, Mentor, and Trainer recognitions.

Maintenance: participation in OpenAgile community cycles