Coaching and Mentoring

Participating in a training course is a wonderful way to quickly learn about some aspect of agile software development. But, many principles and practices of agile software development are best learned by augmenting that training with some coaching or mentoring.

A very common scenario is a one- or two-day training course followed by a day of hands-on work with a team. For example, it's possible to follow a training course on user stories with a day having Mike Cohn work with your team writing the user stories for their project.

Or why not follow an Agile Estimating & Planning course with a day of hands-on help with the team putting their new skills to use?

A popular follow-on to ourCertified ScrumMaster Training is a day spent helping one or more teams plan their initial sprints.

Periodic check-ins are also extremely useful. Scheduling a couple of days of coaching a month or two after a training course is a wonderful way to make sure that the key concepts presented in the class have found their way into daily usefulness.