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So Agile Coaching is dying — what’s it evolving into? Here are the three stepping stones to the next part of your career.

John Davidson
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7 min readAug 3, 2024

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Agile is dead

I wrote a while back about the fact that agile coaching is dying. The fundamental reason is simple: everything is agile, and everything is waterfall. Just as you can’t have a surgeon that can only perform keyhole surgery, you can’t have a leader that can only do agile.

With that realization, we can now move on to what’s next.

In future, the agile coach becomes a delivery leader, moving from cheering at the sidelines to playing an active role in execution, with delivery accountability.

The idea that a Scrum team can be self-organizing and act in a silo is long-dead. The World is too complex for that. No single team knows everything about the business, the customer, the regulatory environment and the technology environment in which they work. It’s why we have all the departments we do in organizations. The best teams know how to navigate necessary complexity and produce results together.

This ability to navigate is where the future of the agile coach lies.

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John Davidson
John Davidson

Written by John Davidson

John leads a large global practice of program managers and agile coaches, and coaches every day. His coaching world is accessible at pivotcoaching.co.uk .

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