Agile Coach Certification introduces participants to essential team coaching skills and team development ideas for starting and growing teams while focusing on teams and organizations as human systems. A key part of this certification focuses on developing an understanding of the professional coaching skillset and the value of honing these skills to serve professionals on an agile team.
Our Agile Coach Certification focuses primarily on the mindset, roles, and responsibilities of an Agile Coach. After completion of this certification, you will be able to differentiate between and among mentoring, facilitating, professional coaching, and teaching. You will also gain the skills needed to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within a team.
Whether the coach is internal or external to the organization, agile coaching covers a broad spectrum that includes teaching, mentoring, problem-solving, planning, leadership, team-building, and mastery of skills and knowledge. Agile Coaches must challenge organizations to change culture by establishing new paradigms that permit agile-lean thinking and quickly deliver value.
Course Duration
20 to 25 Hours
Exam Pattern
- Total Questions: 50 Multiple Choice Questions
- Passing Score: 80% (40 out of 50 correct)
- Exam Duration: 1 hour (60 Minutes)
- Exam Format: Non-proctored, online, can be taken anytime and anywhere within an eight-month validity period
Exam Voucher Policy
- Upon purchasing the Premium Package or an Exam Voucher Code, a voucher code with two attempts will be assigned to your login profile under the “My Vouchers” tab
- You can take the exam through the “My Exam(s)” tab in your profile by applying the voucher code
- The Exam Voucher is valid for two (2) attempts
- If you pass the exam on the first attempt, the voucher will not be valid for a second attempt
- If you are unable to pass the exam within these two attempts, you can purchase a new voucher code, which will grant two additional attempts
Certification Validity
The Certified Agile Coach (CAC)™ Certificate is valid for life
Course Outline
Module 1 – Foundation
- What Does an Agile Coach Do?
- Developing a Coaching Attitude
- Getting Ready to Coach
- How to Start Coaching
- Maintaining the Pace
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 2 – Working with People
- Listening
- Giving Feedback
- Resolving Conflicts
- Building Agreement
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 3 – Leading Change
- Introducing Change
- Asking Questions
- Encouraging Learning
- Facilitating Meetings
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 4 – Building an Agile Team
- Helping a Team Jell
- Creating a Team Space
- Balancing Roles
- Energizing the Team
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 5 – Daily Standup
- Standing Up
- For the Team by the Team
- Handling Issues
- Setting the Time
- When to Coach
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 6 – Understanding What to Build
- Life Cycle of a User Story
- Encouraging Conversations
- Working with Cards
- Confirming the Details
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 7 – Planning Ahead
- Preparing for Planning
- Understanding Priorities
- Sizing the Work
- Review and Commit
- Keeping Track
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 8 – Keeping It Visible
- The Team Board
- Big Visible Charts
- Maintaining the Team Board
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 9 – Getting to Done
- Who Does the Testing?
- Defining What Done Means
- Planning in Testing
- Managing Bugs
- Getting Feedback Early
- Recovering from Not Getting Done
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 10 – Driving Development with Tests
- Introducing Test-Driven Development
- Continuous Integration
- Sustaining Test-Driven Development
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 11 – Clean Code
- Incremental Design
- Collective Code Ownership
- Pair Programming
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 12 – Demonstrating Results
- Preparing for the Demo
- Everyone Plays a Part
- Releasing the Software
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 13 – Driving Change with Retrospectives
- Facilitating a Retrospective
- Designing a Retrospective
- Broader Retrospectives
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 14 – Growing You
- Ways to Grow What You Know
- Making a Plan
- Building Your Network
- Personal Reflections
- Getting Comfortable
- Checklist
Target Audience
- Agile Coaches or aspiring coaches with an enthusiasm for servant leadership and a desire to learn and practice facilitation, professional coaching, mentoring, and teaching in the administration of agile teams
- Scrum Masters / Senior Scrum Masters / Lead Scrum Masters / Transition Lead / Transformation Lead
- Project Managers / Agile Project Managers / Test Managers / Iteration Managers / Release Managers
- Transformation Coaches / Aspiring Agile Coaches / Agile Coaches / Agile Change Agents
