How does an Agile coach gain buy in for a pilot from leaders in the organisation?

An #agilecoach is many things.  



A great communicator, a great facilitator, a great teacher and a great #coach.  



Mastering those 4 disciplines takes a great deal of time, effort and will. As you work through the ranks from #scrummaster to agile coach, you will find that you naturally develop these skills.  



As you progress and begin to work with more people in the organisation, outside of the #scrumteam, you will also begin to develop your business acumen. Your ability to understand business challenges and how problems impact the organisation's performance.  



You are going to be working with senior #leaders within the organisation to remove impediments, actively propose new solutions and ideas, and work with them to integrate #agile into their processes and decision-making.  



At times, you may even be the one that pitches a pilot #scrum or #agile project to demonstrate the value of the #productdevelopment process and unique #agilecapabilities these methodologies deliver.  



So, how do you do that? How do you gain buy-in from #leadership within the organisation to run a pilot project? How do you craft a compelling pitch that gives you the green light to set up a new #scrumteam and start working with #agileframeworks?  



In this short video, John McFadyen walks us through how an agile coach can work towards getting leadership to buy into a pilot for #scrum.  



John has worked on some of the highest performing #scrum teams in the world as both an agile coach and a scrum master. He has also worked as an enterprise and executive coach on some of the UK and Europe's largest, most complex #agiletransformations so he's learned a thing or two about winning opportunities from senior leaders in organisations.  



For more information on John McFadyen, visit https://www.johnmcfadyen.com or connect with John on LinkedIn at   / johnmcfadyen    



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