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Last weekend I started practicing with the San Diego Armada – a beginner’s rugby league in San Diego. When I went to the Agile Coach Camp in Michigan, William Pietri suggested that to be an effective coach, one needs to learn how to do something new from time-to-time. It is important to remember what it feels like to be a beginner and do the stupid things that novices do because they do not know any better. This helps you understand the struggle novices are undergoing when they learn the new Agile practices and methods, be more humble when working with people and be patient with their rate of change.
So here is what I learned this weekend going out for rugby for the first time:
Agile Agile Design Agile SD Book Reviews Burndown Charts Certified Product Owner Certified ScrumMaster Class Design Coaching Collaboration Communication Conferences CSP Fast Pass Daily Scrum Definition of Done Design Excellence Design for Six Sigma Distributed Teams Documentation Español Estimating & Planning Extreme Programming Games Innovation Games Interviews Intro to Scrum Lean Legacy Code Links of the Week Measures Meetings Metrics Migration Movies Open Workspace Pair Programming Personal Planning PMI Powerful Questions Practices Presentations Press Release Product Backlog Product Owner Quality Refactoring Retrospectives Rugby Scrum ScrumMaster ScrumMaster Plus Servant Leadership Simple Design SIMSOC Spain Sprint Backlog Sprint Goal Sprint Planning Sprint Review Stakeholders Task Board Team Test-Driven Development Testing The Core Tools Training Training From the Back of the Room Transitions Travel Uncategorized User Stories Vision Voice of the Customer
Neat! Glad to see somebody took my advice. Looking back, has this changed your coaching any?
Be patient, let the novices make novice mistakes and keep it fun. I think keeping it fun is the most important part cause if you lose the “fun factor”, you’ve lost ’em.