Latest News & Events Surrounding the Book
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Recorded Resources
Fixing Your Agile Coaching with Ryan Ripley
Both of these are 2021-22 sessions where I sat down with my friend, colleague, and, yes Agile Coach Ryan Ripley to explore the dynamics of effective agile coaching.
January 12th, 2022: Agile Coaching with Mark Summers & Bob Galen
This is a podcast Mark and I recorded with Simon Hilton from Comparative Agility, where we explore the Agile Coaching PI assessment he and I developed for them. We’re incredibly excited about how it ties the book to the ACGW and to the PI assessment.
February 21st, 2022: Agile Uprising podcast with Chris Murman
Chris and I explore the book, but more so, we talk about the challenges associated with agile coaching vs. professional coaching. I ALWAYS have a great time with Chris!
April 18th, 2022: Agile Review channel with Ennis Lynch
Ennis invited me to record a session for his Agile Review youtube channel. We explored some personal info, the book, and the agile coaching universe in general. Ennis did a masterful job of facilitating the conversation, and I had a blast with him.
April 29th, 2022: Agile Coaching Toolbox with Nimesh Soni
Nimesh and I explore the book. I think this interview and the one with Ennis give you more of the backstory behind the book.
May 1st, 2022: Agile Book Club review
It was an honor to have been selected to be reviewed by Paul Klipp and Tricia Munsey. They both do a great job of critiquing the book in a detailed and balanced way.
Paul also gave the book a 5-Star review on Amazon and, given his experience in reviewing books, this is high praise indeed!
I’ll be live-interviewed at the 2022 ACE conference on May 20th. Look for that! Here’s the interview recording.
May 31st, 2022: Anthony Mersino, Vitality Chicago review
Anthony gave one of the book's BEST and most detailed reviews. I appreciated his detailed assessment and list of key elements within the book.
As of July 2022, the book made the #1 spot in Agile Coaching in Anthony’s — The 5 Best Agile Books for 2022. WooHoo!
June 17th, Dave Johnson added the book to his wonderful Coach Dave Recommends page with a very nice overview.
August 2022 - I recorded an interview with Joe Krebs on Agile FM, where we explored aspects of agile coaching.
August 2022 - Tony Ponton invited me to chat on his All Things Remote podcast. I’ve known Tony for a couple of years, and he’s a fabulous coach from Australia. Here’s a link to the conversation.
September 2022 - Henry Suryawirawan invited me to share some thoughts on his TechLead.journal() podcast. In this session, I focused on coaching skills for the technical leader. Here’s a link to the conversation.
November 2022 - Pamela Dukes recorded this wonderful video review of the book on LinkedIn. And I appreciate and connect with her “social awareness” observation.
November 2022 - I’m excited to announce that Tom Cagley has selected the book as part of his Agile Coaching, Saturday Re-read series of blog posts. Tom does individual chapters & sections, re-reads them, and shares his more profound learnings and reactions. I appreciate the level of detail he brings to light.
February 2023 - My colleague Shaun Bradshaw and I presented a webinar entitled Coaching Your Way to Leadership, exploring coaching skills for leaders to be more effective.
February 2023 - I presented Everyone…is an Agile Coach for the Agile New England group.
July 2022 & March 2023 - I presented two related sessions to the Agile Austin - Coaching group. In July, Everyone…is an Agile Coach, and then in March, I presented Building Your Coaching Muscles. That latter took a deeper dive into coaching stances.
March 2023 - Tom Cagley’s SPaMCAST 748 – Making Agile Coaching Better, A Conversation with Bob Galen.
August 2022, October 2022, and May 2023 - I did a series of Ask Me Anything sessions (2 along and one with a group) around agile coaching topics and situations for the Scrum Masters of the Universe group. While not specifically tied to the EBAC book, there’s some solid coaching advice here.
As of December 2023, I will stop posting individual events here. The above gives you a flavor of my support of the book. It’s been nearly two years, so it should fly off on its own…