First, Planning to Coach contains three instructional videos that will help you introduce meaningful change and improve your coaching skills:

Questioning and Learning provides tools that will help you better decide which agile tools will augment your strengths and directly address your challenges. Instead of simply “doing Scrum,” possibly introducing more process than you need, this video teaches you interview and assessment techniques that start meaningful discussions needed to start creating a measurable coaching plan.

Topics covered:

• Learn to start important discussions
• Lead informative interviews and that seed meaningful assessments
• Understanding the existing process
• Gathering what is working and use it as a tool
• Understand challenges, especially unique challenges
• Get an understanding of motives for change
• Help surface constraints that will inhibit change

Selecting and Suggesting provides tools to help you select from all the various agile processes (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean Start Up, XP). Using the information from the interviews in the first video, you will learn how to select the least number of practices that show tangible results soon. These techniques will help you introduce appropriate ceremony or what David calls “just enough process,” asking you to examine the number and the size of the project communities who will be affected or engaged. People who are part of process change are more likely to take ownership and produce lasting agility.

Topics covered:

• Discuss the value of selecting a process
• Review practices that might help
• Reframe practices based on outcomes
• Learn tools for advancing appropriate ceremony

Planning to Coach teaches you to create a coaching plan that measures the value of change. Instead of hoping that “things are going well,” you will learn to produce testable, trackable coaching plans. The video also discusses coaching in general, covering topics like: “Why have a coach?,” “Who make a good coach?” and “What do coaches do?” Creating simple coaching plans will help you avoid adding too much process and ensure the process you add is relevant and helpful.

Topics covered:

• Why have a coach?
• Who makes a good coach?
• What does a coach do?
• How to avoid overloading new coaches
• How do you measure and track the value of change?
• Creating coaching plans that promote lasting agility