Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond

The best book by far on agility coaching. I interviewed Bob Galen after reading this wonderful book deeply.Highly recommended.

A Real vision on the agile coach practice with a lot of directly practicable tools. Thanks you Bob.

When you're working with leadership and teams in order to embed agile ways of working and set them on a path of continuous improvement, whilst they deliver products that give value to customers, experience matters. Not only your own, but the experience of a seasoned coaches, captured for reference. This is what this book gives you. Robert Galen and contributors to this book have captured their real life coaching experiences to help us put into context the coaching basics as well as the different coaching models. You can see my well thumbed copy of it. I reference it regularly for coaching conversations that I have. The areas for reflection within the book are also great for self assessing your own coaching and improving your practice. Well worth an investment !

Agile coaching can be hard to understand and takes years to master. It all starts with knowing what agile coaching is. This beeok gives you a great starting point and road map on how to get there. The book is an overview of the various skills you will need but does not dive into any specific area which is perfect as you are left with your own work to do to improve but a clear idea of what is needed.

I greatly appreciated everything about this book. To me there were multiple areas of focus, be it explicit or implicit. Areas such as Mindset, Pragmatism, Humor, Emotional Intelligence, Coaching Frameworks and Situational Awareness just to mention some.References to Alistair Cockburn, Michael Spayd & Lyssa Adkins and how their efforts can influnce/enhance your journey were perfect. Bob's humbleness of how their contributions can contribute to your development were on target.Providing the example from Mark Summers and role based/context based coaching from Jennifer Fields were very helpful. In addition broaching the subject of SOGI and other areas of awareness from his daughter, Rhiannon greatly enhanced in connecting the content to reality as well as helped in reflection.Ovreall I felt a theme of calmness, deep reflection, service and being humble. I will keep this one on the top of bookshelf for reference. Thank you Bob & Team.