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What is your Agile Coaching Pathway?
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Your continual improvement
Are you in charge of your Agile Coaching pathway? As Agile Coaches, we encourage our teams and leaders to focus on continual improvement and personal development, but too often forget ourselves in this.
As the saying goes, “The shoemaker’s children have no shoes”. We need to develop ourselves as well, but: Where do we go? What options are there?
How we got here
“Some are born [agile coaches], some achieve [agile coaching] and some have [coaching] thrust upon ’em”. (apologies to William Shakespeare)
Are you an accidental coach or are you in charge of your career pathway?
In the early days (1995-2005), many of us were drawn to become a scrum master or agile coach role because we built on our solid technical experience with an understanding of agile practice and people-centeredness. Sometimes, we drew the short straw as a developer and were asked to step up as the Team Facilitator for a few Sprints. These days, many people are choosing these types of roles as their first role in the workforce. However we got into it, though, it’s important that we understand what it means and what good looks like.
Agile practice and theory are continually evolving, and if we are not moving in step with them, then we risk stagnating. That’s as true for the most experienced as well as those early in their career. But, as Diana Ross once said: “Do you know where you’re going to?” For those curious in developing ourselves, it helps to have a pathway of options mapped out.
Agile Coaching Pathway
EPiC has long run courses in Agile Team Facilitation and Agile Team Coaching, and have had these formally recognised by the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) for their ICP-ATF and ICP-ACC accreditations.
Now we have added to these with two advanced courses, in Enterprise Agile Coaching and Coaching Agile Transformation, also recognised by ICAgile for ICP-ENT and ICP-CAT respectively.
This now means we can offer a pathway right from your first steps to more advanced topics. Check out the detailed course pages and work out which is right for you now:
