Thousands of Agile and Scrum coaches and practitioners now recognize that the best way to maximize the value of these approaches is to extend them to the entire enterprise. It's not just about making software development work better: organizations can gain value from agile approaches and lessons in a wide variety of processes and systems. Agile practitioners can help organizations achieve these goals -- but, to do so, they need new skills and deeper knowledge.
In Coaching the Agile Enterprise, Michael K. Spayd applies tools from professional systems coaching, organization development, change theory, developmental psychology, and leadership thinking to the profound challenges of creating an agile enterprise. He presents a complete foundation of tools, models, and mindsets; then, using realistic case studies, he applies them to Agile scenarios ranging from the individual to enterprise level. Along the way, he covers issues ranging from team management to business unit integration; culture and community to organizational boundaries.
Along the way, Spayd shares deep insights about organizations, executives, and culture, drawn from 25 years of personal experience catalyzing change in organizations of all sizes and types, from startups to the Fortune® 500. Each of these insights shares a single goal: to help Agile practitioners move beyond teams into the enterprise and executive space.
Michael Spayd has specialized in large-scale Agile transformations since 2001. Training as an Organizational Systems Coach created a foundation for his approach, along with experience in executive coaching, organizational change, systems methods, and consciousness transformation. In 2010, Michael co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute with Lyssa Adkins, where he was CEO until 2017 when they sold the company. In 2016, he co-founded Trans4mation with Michele Madore. His formal credentials include Certified Organization and Relationship Systems Coach (ORSCC), Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), and Certified Scrum Master (CSM). He has been an organizational change coach and consultant for more than 25 years, working in Fortune 1000 to small businesses.
Michele Madore is co-founder and Managing Partner of Trans4mation where her focus is conscious integral leadership development and organizational agility. Her formal credentials include Leadership Circle™ and Leadership System™ Certified Practitioner, 4Sight Conscious Change Consultant Practitioner, Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), and SAFe Agilist (SA), ICAgile Professional. She founded the Agile Richmond user group, and studied in the Organizational Behavior program at Ashford University. Michelle’s executive coaching has included clients such as Women in the Press, Capital One, Morgan Stanley, and dozens of others. In 2005, she discovered Agile and began working with her first large-scale Agile transformation. For the last 11 years, she has dedicated herself to being an architect of change.
0. Systems Everywhere. Why the Systems Perspective Makes All the Difference
Part I. The Team Foundation
1. Coaching People
2. Understanding Teams
3. Coaching Teams
4. Coaching the Manager
5. Coaching the Team-Manager System
Part II. Organizational Agility in the Business Unit
6. Systems Entry and Contracting
7. Understanding Change. Essential Models and Tools
8. Coaching the (Agile) PMO
9. Understanding Leadership and the Executive Mindset
10. Coaching the Agile Leader
11. Coaching Alignment. Integrating the Business Unit
Part III. Can An Enterprise Really Be Agile?
12. Understanding Organizations. Community, Culture and Development
13. Coaching the Agile Transition. Aligning Culture, Community and What is Trying to Happen
14. Zen and the Agile Enterprise. What Might It Look Like to Put It All Together?
15. Coaching Presence. Inner Path of Service
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