Does a team of Agile Coaches need leadership ?
summary
Argues that coaching groups need clear structure and guardianship not vague ideals: a centralized coaching unit delivers synergies, common standards and company‑level work but creates a visible budget blob and capacity bottlenecks — one example cites 75 product teams / 10 coaches — while distributed coaches give proximity but risk local capture. Builds: a community of practice, OKRs and governance; outcome: internalizing contractors improves cohesion and working above the team succeeds; some orgs run coach teams without a formal leader.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:50Agile Coach teams need leadership?
- 4:27Change in organizations
- 7:38Team vs community of coaches
- 13:16Challenges of Agile Coach teams
- 17:33Coaching models centralized vs distributed
- 21:29Leadership in centralized teams
- 27:07Advantages of centralized coaching
- 31:01Measuring success and pitfalls
- 34:12Leadership responsibilities
- 37:18Q&A
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