Community of Scrum Gathering, Orlando 2010

Initiator: Gerry Kirk

Participants (list names):

• Dan Diep
• Scott Dunn
• David Fox
• Mark Summers
• Bachan Anand
• Mauro Bothelho
• Dan LeFebrre
• Mark Petronic
• Pascal Guy
• Carlo Kruger

Major points from your discussion:

Why we were at the session

• Newly independent

• Want to know how to connect and learn

• Want to get better at coaching

• Have felt the value of pairing and collaborating

• Want to share experiences

• We’re a new coach and want to learn

• Suggestion made to join CSC community for support
  

• Suggestion to go to an agile coach camp
  

Gerry's personal experience of a coaching circle

• Trusted peers

• We commit to a regular time

• Usually start off informally

• We build a rapport

  • Share work situations

• We retrospect

• We share the facilitation of the circle

• We have collective owenership

• Have used A3 to help create a vision

Impediments

• How do we find each other? Answer: start by looking around at the people you know. Local is better than distributed, start with people you already have some trust with.
  

• How do we make sure there is a proper fit in the group

Infrastructure Gerry's group uses:

• Tinychat.com

• Skype

• Google Wave

Actions:

• Need to get the word out

• Need a central place online to:

  • Find

  • Share

  • Support

• Use the event blog

• Create a google group at: http://groups.google.com/group/agile-coaching-circle

A challenge for the participants: look around at people you know, find 1 person and talk within one week about forming a circle.

To get involved in this topic, add a comment below or visit the Orlando Scrum Gathering 2010 LinkedIn group http://bit.ly/9lLnW7 , start a discussion and connect with others involved.