Advanced Team Coach

An Advanced Team Coach is able to build teams with high engagement and pride in delivering and handling team events (for example; formation of new teams,  new members joining)

The trademark for an Advanced Team Coach is to build the capability of the teams they coach to self-improve. Ultimately, making yourself as coach redundant. This sets the bar high. The job is not to operate a process but to improve it.

This program builds three key skills:

• Building high-performing teams
• Change leadership
• Continuous improvement

This program has been run at:

• Tobii
• Scania
• A Swedish government department

Testimonial

The Advanced Team Coach Program was a major lift for us at Tobii and one of the best educational programs that we have invested in. The program itself was really well-structured starting from revision of the basics of Scrum, Agile and Lean principles and evolving through to modern product development and Agile at Scale. It was a great mix of practical agile and lean tools as well as more though provoking concepts like systems thinking and flow optimization.

A really nice element of the program was the Buddy concept where participants coached each other through some real life problems they had, all under the guiding eye of Janne of course.

The program has had a direct impact on our team’s effectiveness but also on team collaboration and employee engagement.

Very practically applicable! After each learning lab there was always something I could immediately apply.
– Miriam Sheedy

• About the program
• Being a team coach
• Coaching conversations
• Practice: Creating working agreements

• Complexity, Cynefin – choosing the right approach for the job
• Scrum fundamentals
• User stories
• Estimation
• Sprint planning
• Definition of done
• Retrospectives
• Sprint review
• Practice: My change challenge

• Flow
• Handling bottlenecks/ToC
• Queueing theory
• Systems thinking
• Approaches beyond Agile

• Learning vs. Teaching
• Drivers for learning
• Shu-Ha-Ri
• Training effectively
• Practice: Teach challenge

• Recognizing a team
• Five dysfunctions
• Team phases
• Psychological safety
• T-shaped skills
• What creates collaborative intelligence
• Being responsible – high accountability
• Environments for team success
• 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 team formation pattern
• Practice: Psychological safetey poll

• What facilitation is about
• Facilitators role & values
• Diverge techniques
• Groan zone techniques
• Converge technique
• Closure techniques
• Decision making techniques
• Co-planning/teams of teams
• Practice: Dependency map
• Practice: Facilitate a session

• “Tuning” an organization
• Organizational maturity curve
• Beyond frameworks – Understanding what matters when scaling
• Well functioning Agile teams
• Alignment & Line of sight
• Value streams
• Focus
• Minimizing pain of dependencies
• Four common causes of dependencies
• Scaling Agile
• Continuous improvement
• Practice: Revisit dependency map

• What is a team pattern?
• Stable teams
• Yesterdays weather
• Swarming
• Interupt pattern
• Clean code
• Track status and act early
• Scrumming the Scrum
• Happyness index
• Finish early
• Practice: Prepare Change challenge presentation

• Presentation: My change challenge
• What we have learned
• Changes in my team
• Changes in myself
• What’s next?
• Evaluation

A group of 5 to 10 people follow the program as one unit.  Each member commits to lead one change, one key improvement during the program “my change challenge”.

Each learning lab is one half day.

Minimum attendance is 7 out of 9 sessions.