Even if we are not managers, we may encounter many opportunities for coaching and supporting each other every day. We just rarely encounter them consciously.

On October 27th, Digital Transformation Agency hosted Market Ready panel, in conjunction with the Spark Festival, a festival held throughout startup hubs across Sydney.

In part 1 of this blog post, we explained that coaching is a 4-stage process which reflects the team's agile maturity. The stages are Educate, Show, Mentor and Support. Let's now focus on why delivery-oriented coaching is more valuable than coaching teams from the sidelines. Delivery-orientated coaching means showing things rather than talking about them.

"Agile Coach" is an extremely overused term today: it seems like every company wants one and lots of people refer to themselves as that. But what does it actually mean? An external consultant? The iteration manager (aka Scrum Master)? The person who facilitates collaborative workshops? An agile project manager? A trainer talking about agile? Someone who visits once a week and advises the team?