Certified Agile Coach Training

Content of the Agile Coach Training Program

• Module 1: Agile Universe, 3 days, May 14 - 16, 2024 in Darmstadt
  

• Module 2: Product Ownership, 2 days, June 13 - 14  in Darmstadt
  

• Module 3: Agile attitude and coaching, 2 days, July 18 - 19 in Darmstadt
  

• Module 4: Agile Scaling, 3 days, September 03 - 05 2024 in Darmstadt
  

• Module 5: Agile Transformation, 3 days, October 09 - 11, 2024 in Darmstadt
  

• Individual coaching (2 x 1 hour by appointment)

• self-organized learning groups
  

Our understanding of the role of the Agile Coach

Agile coaches build an inspiring environment, spur on fellow team members, challenge and lead the way. They have ideas, tools and techniques at the ready that help individuals, support the team and move the organization forward. To do this, you need knowledge and skill, empathy and expertise. 

All these elements are part of the Certified Agile Coach training. We have developed the "House of the Agile Coach" as a guiding principle for this training program.

The Agile Coach training offers a learning journey through the "agile universe".

Together with a small group of participants, you undertake a learning journey of 5 months through the "agile universe". In a personal preliminary discussion that you have with our trainers in advance, we match prior knowledge and expectations and make sure that the training program fits your needs. We ensure a balance of theory and practice so that you can immediately apply what you have learned. Pre- and post-training assignments and personal mentoring create an individual learning path that ensures maximum transfer and guarantees holistic development.

Our coaching training is characterized by the fact that our trainers have many years of own experience as Agile Coaches, bring broad industry knowledge, and they thus convey the content from theory and their own experience.

Learning content of the Agile Coach training

The Agile Coach training takes place in 5 modules with different focuses. The modules of the Agile Coach training alternate between two and three days. They take place as face-to-face events in wibas training rooms in Darmstadt. The modules extend over five months, during which you remain together with the other participants as a learning group. The group setting enables intensive exchange and at the same time forms a protected space for joint learning.

In each module, we focus on a different content in order to illuminate the fields of application of the agile coach from different perspectives and to test them in practical exercises.

Module 1: Agile Universe

We start with the alignment of the agile equipment of knowledge and experience that everyone brings with them to lay a common foundation for all. It is about the working mechanisms behind the agile principles, about the interaction of the agile roles and about deepening aspects in the frameworks like Scrum and Kanban. Already in the first module, the contents are worked out, made personally tangible and linked to one's own everyday work.

Module 2: Product Ownership

The second module focuses on how products/services are developed and maintained in an agile manner. It is about alignment and orientation or the question of how clarification is brought about iteratively between implementers and requirements. This process and the responsibilities within it are essential for the effectiveness of an organization, regardless of the framework used (Scrum, Kanban,...).

Module 3: Agile attitude

In the third module, you will deal with agile mindset. The module touches on topics of individual responsibility as well as the topic of leadership in an agile environment. You will learn how the agile coach helps to ensure that the agile attitude is lived and experienced throughout the entire organization. The module concludes with a reflection on the learning journey so far.

Module 4: Scaling agile practices

Many organizations use agile working at the team level. For greater leverage, agile teams must work together. This is the only way to develop more complex products and services and manage dependencies. This module will take you through the concepts of key scaling models and provide immediate experience of their mechanisms of action in a simulation. On the last day, we dedicate ourselves again to reflecting on the individual learning journeys and design a conscious farewell together.

Module 5: Agile Transformation and Final Colloquium

Since most organizations are about moving from previous ways of working towards agility, in this module you will deal with change processes in social systems. With this, you will work on the role of the Agile Coach as a catalyst of change. You will receive implementation tools for the success factors of successful change and develop a change approach that is agile in itself. 

Mentoring by experienced Agile coaches

The overall offer of the Agile Coach training includes two one-hour individual sessions with one of our experienced wibas coaches. Here you have the opportunity to clarify and deepen personal questions.

Material for Agile Coach Training

As a participant of the Agile Coach Training you will receive the following materials:

• a book "Organization in a digital age
• an agility compact for quick reference
  
• Map of change (poster with explanatory booklet)
• Agile Coach Diary for notes and own development
  

Full service for your Certified Agile Coach training

The following services are included in this training:

• Certificate as Agile Coach after completion of all modules
• Photo protocol of the developed contents and work results after the modules
• Possibility to network with other training participants on the mywibas platform
• Delicious lunch on each training day 
• Barista coffee, tea, cold drinks, fruit and healthy snacks