The Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching Book

Be an extraordinarily badass agile coach. This excellent book by Bob Galen provides the frameworks, roadmaps and tools and techniques to do just that.

I have the pleasure of reviewing Bob Galen’s Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching book. Wow, I was not disappointed!

Bob collaborated with many people to create this book. Foremost would be his co-creators of the book — Mark Summers, Jennifer Fields and Rhiannon Galen-Personick. Each of them contributed one or more chapters and remarkably, the book reads as if it has a single voice.

Previous to this book, one of the books I gifted the most to new coaches and Scrum Masters was Lyssa Adkins book, Coaching Agile Teams. It is a great book and has done well since it was published in 2010. It was my go-to agile coaching book.

That said, Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching is a badass agile coaching book. Bob Galen has taken the art (profession?) of agile coaching, dissected it, applied frameworks and related concepts and put it back together in the Extraordinary Badass Agile Coaching. In fairness to Adkins and the many many others who have contributed to the current state of agility, Bob was standing on the shoulders of giants when he produced…