Agile Coaching Professional (ICP-ACC)

From coaching and guiding Agile teams, to educating team members and stakeholders or advising management and executives: Agile Coaching Professionals (ICP-ACC) interact on all levels. By completing this program, you will gain the skills to independently work as an certified Agile coach.

Understand in just three days what it takes to guide Agile transformations at individual, team and organizational level. Through real life examples, case studies, simulations, coaching interventions and continuous learning and feedback you will learn to:

• Strengthen your professional skills to operate as an independant AC

• Distinguish the skills of mentoring, facilitating, coaching, and teaching

• Assume the role of Agile ambassador

• Apply Agile coaching practices

• Tackle your challenges with the agile community

• Understand and implement different roles of Agile coaching

• Create a secure space for effective teamwork and conflict resolution

Day 1: Journey of an Agile Coach

• Development in the agile coaching discipline

  • The Agile coaching Mindset

• Coach as professional coach

  • Foundation professional coaching skills

  • The coaching conversation

• Setting Boundaries for Agile Coaching

  • Coaching alliances and contracts

Day 2: Coach Roles

• Coaching competencies

• Coach as a mentor

  • Key mentoring Skills

  • Mentoring Agile role transitions

• Coach as a teacher

  • Key teaching skills

  • Agile mindset shifts and frameworks

• Coach as a facilitator

  • Elements of facilitation

  • Value proposition for facilitation

Day 3: Team Dynamics

• Coach as a team Coach

  • Foundation Team coaching

  • Describing team development

  • Coaching the Journey toward High Performance

  • Handling conflict and dysfunction within the team

  • Handling Organizational impediments

• Ground Rules Agile transformations

This training is for experienced Agile professionals who aspire to work as Agile coaches.

This course is for Agile professionals with experience. We require a minimum of one year's experience in the role of Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile coach or practical experience working with Agile principles is required. We recommend that you refresh your Agile knowledge and read an article in preparation before the course.

Unsure how to start your Agile Coach journey? We have a comprehensive 3-course track to help you become an accredited Agile Coach in no time at all. By taking part in these courses in the following order, you'll be able to fully immerse yourself into the Agile Coach role and begin an exciting new chapter in your career:

Interested in becoming an Agile Coach? You can easily become accredited by following our selection of ICAgile trainings in the following order:

1. Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
2. Agile Coaching Professional (ICP-ACC)
3. Agile Enterprise Coach (ICP-ENT)