XP 2018

The Coaching Card is a simple but powerful template for ScrumMasters, line managers and Agile Coaches who are interested in coaching their teams to become more mature. (If you're not interested in that, you're probably in the wrong job.) The concept has been developed by agile42 over the last 5-6 years, by doing it and helping others do it. It's our own solution to a common practical problem, and it's most likely unique as we haven't seen any other solutions to this problem.

The Coaching Card is both a thinking model and a template based on the OODA loop (inspect and adapt) and on Karl Tomm's coaching model. It specifically uses observations, hypotheses, goals, metrics and interventions. It gives some backbone to the coaching work, helps people choose the right interventions and gives a degree of measurability to the work. It also lets several people collaborate around one team and is a key component in our onboarding process for new coaches, as it helps junior coaches formulate their thoughts and get mentoring and advice from more experienced coaches. It's one of those simple things that people don't know they are missing, but are so obvious in hindsight.