| Agile Coaching
Mike Bowler
Agile Coach and Trainer
I've been in the Agile space for over 25 years, helping teams and their management improve how they work.
I also provide personal coaching for individuals, unrelated to my agile work if that's what you're looking for.
If you are interested in agile coaching for your organization then book a call with Mike.
What is Agile Coaching?
What is generally called "Agile Coaching" is a large bucket of skills including actual coaching, mentoring, training, facilitation, systems and workflow design, and Agile expertise. Many different approaches toward the common goal of improving how we deliver better value to our customers sooner, and with less risk.
Agile started in the software development field and is still dominant there, although it's expanded to many other domains today.
Who am I?
I'm Mike Bowler, an experienced coach and trainer who helps teams, and their management, improve the way they deliver value. I've been working with agile for over twenty-five years, and had been writing software for another fifteen years before that. This is the experience I bring to your organization.
What makes my approach different is in the range of skills that I bring to your organization:
- Human behaviour, psychology, and applied neuroscience, to improve how people work, both individually and in groups. This includes a focus on growing psychological safety.
- Workflow design and implementation, to improve how the work flows through the system and how value is created. A focus on metrics, more data-informed decision making, and probabilistic forecasting to more accurately answer the question “when will we be done?”
- Product skills to ensure we're building the right thing, when the customer needs it.
- Technical skills to ensure that we're building that product right, improving how the value is actually implemented and maintained. Development, architecture, DevOps.
- Coaching skills to help us, help others. Utilizing unconscious behaviour to get the best out of everyone.
- 25 years of experience with Agile methods to put it all together. Kanban, Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP)
I'm based in Canada and have traveled around the world, providing training classes, coaching and facilitation services to my clients. Today, preference is being given to coaching that can be done remotely and I work in your timezone, wherever you are located.
You can either start with a free consultation to learn more about how I can help your company, or you can jump into your first paid appointment to answer an immediate question.
Who do I work with in your organization?
While I primarily still work with software development teams and their management, I've worked with teams as diverse as statistical model creators, HR professionals, and geologists.
I also work at all levels of the organization. While I tend to work with teams doing the actual work, I've also worked with all levels of management right up to the executive leadership of billion dollar companies.
Mike Bowler
Agile Coach and Trainer
I've been in the Agile space for over 25 years, helping teams and their management improve how they work.
I also provide personal coaching for individuals, unrelated to my agile work if that's what you're looking for.
The trainer designations below are for programs that I used to teach but no longer do. In each case, I still endorse the classes that I taught, even though I am not teaching them at this time.
