The Agile Coach Role: Coaching for Agile Performance Impact

It is increasingly common to introduce agile coaches help gain speed and advantage in companies. Following the success of Spotify, role coach has branched out terms tasks responsibilities, but little research been conducted examine how this practiced. This paper examines through 19 semi-structured interviews with from ten different We describe projects, valuable traits, skills, tools, enablers coaching. Our findings indicate that perform at team organizational levels. They affect effort, strategies, knowledge, skills teams. The most essential traits an are being emphatic, people-oriented, able listen, diplomatic, persistent. suggest empirically based advice for coaching, example companies giving their authority implement required changes within outside