5 Psychological Approaches as an Agile Coach

Eiki Takeuchi
7 min readNov 28, 2023

The agile coach needs to understand basic psychology since her responsibility is to educate individuals and change her team to achieve higher performance for end-users. I vividly remember that I encountered huge resistance and failed at my first Agile project without understanding how people think and react to change. Although I had enough knowledge of Agile and was certified, my attitude, mindset, and communication toward people were wrong. As some prominent individuals say, a successful formula in the business is that 20% is hard skills (knowledge), and 80% is soft skills…

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