Rethinking the Future of Agile Coaching, Role Fluidity, and the Skills We Really Need

I recently led a workshop for a group of Lead Agile Coaches titled ‘Enterprise-wide Agile Transformation'. In one section, ‘People & Culture as Enablers of Enterprise Agility’, I found myself delivering what could have sounded like a bleak message for the future of their roles...That fewer organisations are hiring Agile Coaches by name.

But this doesn’t mean agile coaching is dead, it means that the skillset coaches have are valued everywhere.

You’ve probably heard the phrase “Agile is dead” recently. Personally, I don’t believe that’s true. Agile isn’t dead, it’s evolving. I believe we’re beginning to move away from what Martin Fowler called the Agile Industrial Complex, the commercialisation and rigid dogma that has held teams back for far too long.  I think the future heralds a positive return to a focus to what truly matters: people, collaboration, and adaptability…