Coaching and Mentoring within Teams

Coaching and Mentoring within Teams is a crucial aspect of the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) framework. These practices help develop team members' skills and enhance overall team performance. Coaching in agile teams focuses on unlocking potential through guided discovery. Agile coaches don't provide direct solutions but ask powerful questions that help team members find their own answers. They create safe environments for experimentation and learning, facilitate retrospectives, and guide teams through challenges. Coaches remain neutral and serve the team's growth rather than directing outcomes. Mentoring, on the other hand, involves experienced practitioners sharing knowledge with less experienced team members. Mentors provide guidance based on their expertise, offering advice, sharing experiences, and suggesting approaches to specific problems. Unlike coaching, mentoring often includes some direct advice-giving. In agile environments, both approaches are valuable but serve different purposes: - Coaching helps teams discover their own solutions and become self-organizing - Mentoring transfers knowledge and accelerates learning through experience sharing Effective agile leaders switch between coaching and mentoring styles based on the situation. When team members need to develop critical thinking and ownership, coaching is ideal. When they need specific technical guidance or industry insights, mentoring may be more appropriate. Both approaches support agile values by: - Respecting individuals and fostering collaboration - Promoting continuous improvement and learning - Building adaptive capacity within teams - Increasing team autonomy and self-organization The PMI-ACP emphasizes these servant leadership approaches as they build sustainable agile teams capable of delivering value consistently while continuously improving their practices.

Coaching and Mentoring within Teams is a crucial aspect of the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) framework. These practices help develop team members' skills and enhance overall team perform…

Concepts covered: Creating a Safe Environment, Team Dynamics, Empowerment, Developing Team Agility and High Performance, Feedback Mechanisms, Conflict Resolution, Active Listening, Facilitating Performance, Self-Organization, Servant Leadership, Teaching, Collaborative Conversations, Coaching for Development, Inspiring Others