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A Bunch of Cool Coach Quotes

8/24/2016

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“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.” 
― John Wooden

 “I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.“ ― Mike Krzyzewski

“The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled” – Ric Charlesworth


“Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear” – John Madden

“Victory or defeat is not determined at the moment of crisis, but rather in the long and unspectacular period of preparation” – Anonymous

“Failure is never quite as frightening as regret” – Anonymous

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” -- Bobby Knight – Henry David Thoreau

“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward.  But both those methods are only temporary.  The only lasting thing is self-motivation.” – Homer Rice

“My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.” – Don Shula


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Modern Agile Made my Monday

8/22/2016

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It was a normal Monday morning, not much to speak of. I walked into the building and greeted the security officer: "How was your weekend?" "Too short!" A shared laugh, and I was on my way upstairs to catch a conference call, a couple of daily stand-ups, and a coaching circle gathering. When nobody showed up to the circle, I decided to watch a video that a fellow coach pointed me to. He hadn't even watched it yet, but the topic looked interesting: Modern Agile.

For the next 40 minutes, I was mesmerized as Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic, gave his Agile2016 keynote on his invention, Modern Agile. For months, I'd been tortured by the idea that somehow, some way, Scrum and the Agile Principles could be leaned down, but just couldn't put my finger on how. Little did I know, Kerievsky had it all worked out before I even started wondering. 

Below is the Modern Agile spinner. No side is destined to remain on top, no side has precedence. He compared scrum and the agile manifesto/principles to an old laptop that looks just like mine (ouch!), and said it was time to put those old thoughts in in an agile senior home ("the food is great!").  I agree. 
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I immediately redesigned my Scrum/Agile Basics training around the four easy ideas above. No more will I walk through all twelve principles, explaining each on in detail to confused new hires. In the spirit of one of the discarded principles, the art of the work not done includes not having to make a "cheat sheet" for students so they can remember them. I'll post more as I used Modern Agile to lean my own processes, teams, and training. Stay tuned! This is just day one! 

https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/videos/modern-agile/

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    I'm an Agile Coach and Scrum Master in St. Louis, MO. I also do improv theater and stand-up comedy around town. 

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarakryvko

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