Pair-Coaching Domino Game

presented by Victor Bonacci & Scott Dunn

at Global Scrum Gathering® Orlando 2016

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Who is your favorite duo?

Are they adventuresome?

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What is Pair-Coaching?

Is it elementary?

Have you tried pair-coaching?

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Competency Framework

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9 Complementary Roles

http://www.estherderby.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ChoosingACoachingRoleQA.pdfOriginally from “Choosing a Consulting Role” by Douglas Champion, Davie Kiel, and Jean McLendon.

#paircoaching

Not pairing full time

Time apart is OK

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Andrea Tomasini: http://www.agile42.com/en/blog/2016/03/18/pair-coaching/

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“Strengthening the Casefor Pair Programming”

IEEE SOFTWARE, July/August 2000

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paircoaching.net redirects to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pairworking

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What is Self-Efficacy?

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Albert Bandura

Self-Efficacy

Confidence in Abilities

Effective Engagement in Behaviors

Achievement of Desired Goals

High vs Low Self-Efficacy

Bandura 1994

1. Enactive Self-MasteryFailure or success of actual performance

Break into small, achievable steps

2. Role-Modeling

Vicarious Experiences

Observing others or visualizing self-mastery

3. Social Persuasion

Verbal Persuasion(Pep Talks)

“You got this, Bert!”

4. Physiological Cues

Somatic (body) or Emotional states

Pair-Coaching’s domain:

1. Mastery / Experience• actual performance

2. Role-Modeling• failure or success of others

3. Verbal/Social persuasion• pep talks

4. Physiological cues• bodily cues

Patterns / Roles

of Pair-Coaching

Prime StanceBeing of service to help the client/coachee

Bound by the ethics of the coaching profession:

• Only the client’s agenda leads the conversation

Pure Coaching (NOT mentoring, training or teaching)

ContrarianDebate starters (Smarter, Faster, Better)

second coach can provide much needed empathy, a voice advocating to try the experiment to find learning.

(* Good Cop / Bad Cop; Devil’s Advocate; Prescriptive / Progressive, Yin Yang; parents)

Trainer / Observer

One coach leads the training while the other:

•observes to offer feedback later

• tags-in and teaches

• scans the audience for outliers / those needing attention

Driver / NavigatorThis pairing resembles the Trainer/Observer, but it can happen outside of the full team environment. Two coaches can make light work of otherwise daunting tasks, saving time, catching errors and preventing rework. A Product Owner / Scrum Master relationship may make use of this dynamic during a story writing exercise or preparing for a complex backlog grooming session.

(see Kent Beck’s definition of pair-programming)

* Helmsman?

Co-LearnersWhen the subject matter is new to both participants, or the terrain is dangerous, each coach helps the other understand in very short feedback loops. This type of dynamic may happen when we pair up to do exercises at a conference or other training session. Much like saying “two heads are better than one”, each of us has our own perspective on things, but by listening to and learning from each other, we help increase our own knowledge bit by bit.

Senpai / KohaiThe Japanese culture gave us the senpai/kohai relationship. Similar to a mentor / protégé (or a senior / junior) pairing, this role can be thought of as a more formalized “buddy system” to be used when newer members join an organization. This can be a very beneficial role to play as an agile coach. Thinking back to your first days on the job, did someone help you with onboarding, telling you how to navigate the HR paperwork, where to submit the expense reports and what time is best for booking the meeting rooms?

Growth CoachAccountability / Mentorship

Other Patterns?

Domino Game - Instructions• Each domino has two numbers

1. Use one number to find a partner

2. Use second number as your experience level

3. Add up ALL dots on BOTH dominoes. Us the sum to identify your scenario

4. Role play for 4-5 minutes

5. Exchange dominoes

6. Repeat using new number to find new partner

• play 5 iterations

11 Scenarios (based on SUM of TWO dominos)

Sum Role / Pattern Scenario

0 – 5 Co-Learning Understanding User Story Mapping

6 – 10 Kohai/Sempai Introducing new Scrum Master to teams

11 – 14 Driver/Navigator Crafting a retrospective agenda

15 – 16 Trainer/Observer Conducting a Story Writing workshop

17 Kohai/Sempai Explains the social/political office landscape

18 Driver/Navigator SM helps PO prepare for Release Planning

19 Growth Coach One holds other accountable for “homework”

20 – 21 Prime Pair coaches SM in navigating conflict

22 – 25 Contrarian Initiating a design debate

26 – 30 Trainer/Observer Co-training a CSM course with a CST

31 – 36 Contrarian Negotiating with executive leadership

… OR make up a scenario of your own.

Debrief• What observations did you have?

• How was the experience? … comfortable?

for the benefit of external parties

(team, individuals, executives…)

for the benefit of internal parties

(the coaches)

singlebeneficiary

multiplebeneficiaries

singleexternal

multipleexternal

singleinternal

multipleinternal

singleexternal

multipleexternal

singleinternal

multipleinternal

Yves Hanoulle

paircoaching.net redirects to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pairworking

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HELP! As a Pair-Coach, your role is notjust to practice pair-coaching,

but to develop other Pair-Coaches.