Bookhamer

Thomas Bookhamer

As a coach, trainer, and facilitator, I will be working with the organization as a whole to ensure that cultural challenges inherent in an Agile transformation, training, and process execution are correctly addressed. I am a collaborative facilitator with years of experience in the areas, participatory training, and coaching. I bring over 25 years of management, facilitation, training, and coaching to my consulting work. As a facilitator I am uniquely experienced and qualified position to provide Agile Coaching and training filtered by years of Waterfall, PMI experience and balanced by executive operations experience to successfully engage the business side of the adoption.

What is Agile?

- The term “Agile” refers to the Agile Manifesto
– Agile is NOT a methodology
– Try NOT to think of Agile as something you “do” it is more something you can “be”

– Example:

– To deliver frequently is to “be” Agile
– “Usable deliverables are the primary measure of progress.”
- Agile should be thought of as a characteristic or adjective.
– Scrum, Kanban, and XP are Agile because they support the Agile Manifesto
– If you are doing Scrum correctly you are being Agile

What Does an Agile Coach look like?

– Someone who has faced the big dragons, organizational impediments, and has become a coach to managers and other outsiders in the course of addressing them.
- Someone who has brought ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theatre, and more – to help the team become a high performance team – the way you always imagined a high performance team could be.

What are some Traits of an Agile Coach?

Facilitation – Coaching – Teaching – Mentoring – Agile-Lean Practice Expertise – Knows multiple Lean methodologies. e.g.: Scrum, XP, Kanban, FDD, Crystal, etc. – Technical Mastery – Business Mastery – Transformational Mastery – Leadership – Coaching Stance – Self-Awareness – Blogs about Agile – Tweets about Agile – Has produced multiple presentations on Agile topics and presented them to multiple audiences – Has coached multiple teams – Has coached at multiple organizations – Has coached in multiple industries – Has read many Agile books.

What are some accomplishments of an Agile Coach?

Introduced Agile (or Scrum, XP, Lean, or Kanban) to organizations – Started up X teams using Scrum (or XP, Lean, Kanban or just plain Agile) – Provided CSM training – Provided a story writing workshop – Provided an Agile 101 Class – Provided Product Owner training – Introduced Agile practices – Facilitated backlog grooming (or standup meetings, or iteration planning, or iteration review, or retrospective) – Acted as Scrum Master (or product owner) for X iterations (or sprints) – Taught TDD/ATDD – Has the following words sprinkled throughout: facilitated, mentored, coached, taught, fostered, improved, trained Improved the performance of teams or advanced the careers of those they managed – Directly influenced teams working in or transitioning to an Agile environment

Cruise Ship Seminars – Training on a Cruise Ship!

4 day Cruise

In every Seminar Thomas combines all of the “Effective Coaching + Serious Games = Winning Solutions” products and techniques into a four day seminar to deliver unprecedented insights and techniques. Seminars are designed to provide participants with all of the tools and knowledge they need to implement the Five Keys to a Healthy Corporate Culture and Serious Games in their companies, or with their clients.

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Hotel Seminars

4 day Training

In each Seminar, whether it’s on a ship or in a hotel, Thomas Bookhamer delivers four days of powerful, immediately usable techniques. You will also receive as a take-away, a copy of his new book as a tool to assist you in your new implementation toward a healthy corporate culture.

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