What is a Facilitation Design?

What is it? The skill of facilitation can be split into two parts: 1) BEFORE: Everything you do when designing and preparing your event 2) DURING: Guiding the participants through your event The Facilitation Design is a document you make before the event when you...

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Online workshop: Ethics & Agile Coaching

Recently the Agile Alliance released the 'Agile Coaching Ethics'. Since ICAgile adopted this code of ethics, it will be a part of any Certified Agile Team Coach (ICP-ACC) training moving forward.  This free online workshop is meant for...

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The Magic of Beginnings

Not all moments in a team’s lifecycle are created equally.There are many models that describe how teams develop (ShuHari, Tuckman, Drexler-Sibbet to name just a few). Although they all differ quite a bit, they have one thing in common: they underline that teams go...

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sprintzero becomes ICAgile member organisation

Dutch based Agile training and coaching agency sprintzero joins the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) and will be the first member organisation in the Netherlands to provide ICAgile certified Agile coaching training. Jasper Verdooren, founder of...

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My Coaching Stance as an Agile Coach

As part of graduating from the AgileCoachingInstitute's Agile Coaching Competence Cohort as an ACI Certified Teams Transformation Coach™ (CTTC), I had to create a presentation about my stance as an Agile Coach. I decide to create small video as my graudation...

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What are story points? | Video

"What are story points?" As an Agile coach, I run into a lot of teams that have trouble with the concept of story points. So I decided to take story points as the topic for my second video (see the first one here). Have a look and let me know what you think!...

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Lean Startup Summit: a quick review

Lean Startup The Lean Startup movement has had my interest since Eric Ries launched "The Lean Startup'. Not only because it seems like a great way to build new products, but also because it provided some of the 'missing pieces' to the Scrum framework. Before Lean...

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When to do your Refinement meeting… according to science!

When working with Scrum teams, getting your Refinement process right is key. I just finished reading ‘When’ by Daniel Pink (the author of Drive etc). It’s a great book and I can recommend it to anyone interested in improving your personal effectiveness or in human...

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