Scrum Master Coaching Cohort

Maximize your career potential with our cohort-based coaching group specifically designed for Scrum Master. This program offers immersive, hands-on learning experiences tailored to those currently in the Scrum Master role. Whether you're new to the position or looking to enhance or grow your skills, our training and coaching will meet you at your level and enable you to help your team deliver digital products more effectively and efficiently.

The cohort coaching model offers a regular interaction schedule, a structured content program, and the flexibility for participants to tailor the material to their learning needs. Each week, the coach presents prompting questions and delves into key concepts and practices with the group. Participants are encouraged to bring their work challenges to the group, where they can be discussed in a supportive environment. The other participants and the coach help breakdown these challenges, identify root issues, and brainstorm possible solutions, effectively broadening everyone's experience and perspectives.

Pre-requisites

• ​This cohort is best suited to people actively working in a Scrum Master capacity.
• Participants should be CSM-certified prior to starting the program.

Dates of Fall 2024 Cohort

• October 28
• November 4
• November 18
• November 25
• December 9
• December 16

• Managing Scrum events: Engaging the team to optimize the value of each event and exploring common anti-patterns in Scrum events
• Scrum best practices: Deepen your Scrum practices to support your team for backlog refinement, ticket writing, estimation and forecasting, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
• Facilitation skills: Using visuals to facilitate alignment as well as learning tips and tricks remote, in-person, and large and small group facilitation.
• Addressing impediments: Learn how to make problems visible, understand organizational constraints, manage an impediments backlog, and troubleshoot different solutions and experiments for your team
• Servant leadership: Learn how to coach your Product Owner, Scrum team, and leadership team(s)
• Overcoming obstacles: Share successes and explore challenges from your context

In this cohort, participants will have the opportunity to:

• Build a community of colleagues working on similar challenges
• Develop their skills and reinforce best practices
• Reflect on other participants’ experiences and perspectives to broaden their own learning
• Work on a shared annotated work board (MIRO or MURAL)
• Have access to a contextual resource list
• Get guidance, insight and encouragement from an experienced coach for tackling their challenges
• Have access to an online discussion forum where they can interact with each other and the coach as they work through the cohort

Structure of the Cohort

This cohort will have a minimum of 6 participants and a maximum of 9 participants to ensure personalized attention while also having diverse perspectives

• Note: This cohort will only run if 6 people are signed up

• All coaching sessions are delivered virtually, using Zoom - so join us from anywhere in the world!
• 6 sessions of 2 hours over a 9-week period on Mondays from 1pm-3pm PST

• Dates of Fall 2024 Cohort: October 28th, November 4th, 18th, & 25th, and December 9th & 16th
• Coach provides offline support between sessions (emailed questions and via the online discussion forum)
• Meeting invites will be sent out after registration by the facilitator

Please contact us if you would like further information on our cohorts.

Sarah Adams

Sarah has deep experience as practitioner and consultant in the public, private and non-profit sectors, helping teams and organizations transform from the inside out. She deploys a wealth of skills in visual facilitation, team building, stakeholder engagement, workflow management, analysis and outcome measurement.

When coaching individuals, product delivery teams, and portfolio leaders, her passion is helping people clearly see their current reality and design their future. Sarah's values are clarity, flexibility, and trust.

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