While this session is structured as a talk, it will incorporate considerable interaction with the audience via exercises ranging from simple anecdotes to activities borrowed from improv. Sample topics to seed the conversation are included with each Life Stage, and the audience will dot-vote on the topics that they would like to explore. The Life Stages form themes for the specific topics to be selected, and each life stage equates roughly to a stage in the “life” of an Agile team. For example, topics in the Infant stage generally focus on a team’s formation and early experiences with Agile.

Since Agile Coaching requires that a coach “think on their feet”, the audience will be expected to provide both issues and solutions, seeded with those from the speaker. Because the audience will have an element of control over the content within the individual stages of life, no set time limit per stage is specified.

Timeline:

• Introduction - 5 mins.
• Topic selection - 10 mins.
• Topic exploration - 65 mins.
• Sample Topics:
  • Infant and Toddler - “Learning to Crawl”, “Blankie”
  • Preschooler and Elementary School - “The Picky Eater”, “Because I said so!”
  • Adolescent and Teenager - “Breaking the Dependency”, “You’re Not That Special”
  • Young Adult and Mature Adult - “Believe in It”, “Slow Down That Swing”
• Review and Wrap-up - 10 mins