Growing Agile Coaches
We are Karen and Sam. We love agile and want to share it with the world. One of the ways we do that is by planting seeds and nurturing them to help grow more agile coaches. That’s why we openly share our knowledge, experiences, successes and failure via books, online courses and our blog. If you are an aspiring agile coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner, agile leader or team member let us help you on your agile journey.
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We believe everyone should be able to learn about Scrum for free.
Whether you’re completely new to agile looking for a quick overview or you have been doing it for a while looking for a refresher on the basics – this course is for YOU.
Latest Blog Posts
The value of a Scrum Master
The role of Scrum Master is a debate that has been been raging for over a decade. It is hugely misunderstood term and abused all over the world. I am grateful that this term crossed my life. If it wasn't for this term "Scrum Master" I would never have truly learned...
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Full Time Scrum Master experiment part 4 – Retrospectives!
Here I was, full time scrum mastering! There was time to plan mindful retrospectives targeted on what the team needed, it was total bliss. I'd been learning so much and this was an obvious way to put my learnings into practice and experiment with some new things. ...
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Full Time Scrum Master experiment part 3 – Who’s doing the testing?
One of the biggest questions about this experiment has been ‘who’s doing the testing?’ I, as a full time tester, quit that to be the scrum master, right? And we only had the one tester on our squad. I don’t recommend dropping your tester in favour of a scrum master, a...
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What people say
Judging from the energy in the team after the training and the subsequent increase in drive and enthusiasm in the office, one could only conclude that using Growing Agile to bring home the principles of Agile was the right choice.
Rob KnightI love your coach’s guide to agile testing! It’s SO wonderful to know other people “get” testing and what people need to know and do!
Y’all truly grok the testing mindset. I hope lots of people will take advantage of your guide!
Sam and Karen paired to facilitate the meeting of two dozen organizers of Agile 2012. In 3 hours, they took a group with differing points of view, to learning from each other, and making decisions. Their design rocked!
Diana LarsenKaren and Sam are great and bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the training. I can highly recommend their Advanced ScrumMaster course for any agilists looking to take their abilities to the next level!
Justin Doyle