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Better Tech Leadership

#19 Nick Brown: C for Coaching - How can you get teams to thrive?

May 31, 2023
Nick Brown, expert in team-building, discusses the role of an agile coach, team composition, challenges in data interpretation, the ISIS tool for flow metrics and forecasting, analyzing cycle time and variability, and essential leadership qualities for continuous improvement.
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  • Agile coaches at ASOS focus on partnership and improvement based on what the teams want, rather than pushing a specific framework.
  • ASOS emphasizes the importance of team health checks, including psychological safety, and encourages teams to proactively measure and improve their team health using tools such as the Psychological Safety Survey and the Petals framework.

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Role of Agile Coaches at ASOS

The speaker discusses their role as an agile coach at ASOS, where they work with different teams to help them find more effective ways to work in line with agile values and principles. The coaches do not push a specific framework, but instead focus on partnership and improvement based on what the teams want.

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