Scrum
Coach Types
Motley
Coach Skills
Coach Stances
100

Focus, Respect, Openness, Courage, & Commitment

What are the 5 Scrum Values?

100

They ask neutral, open-ended questions related to keywords that pop-up in the discussion.

Who is a Systemic Coach

100

The location of the Sea of Tranquility.

What is the Moon?

100

Bark Less, Wag More
(aka. Talk Less, Smile More)

What is Listening?

100

Demonstrate integrity. Living the agile life.

What is Role-Modeling?

200

Responsible for facilitating the Scrum process and ensuring the team is delivering value

Who is Scrum Master

200

They responsibility for infusing the organization with Agile thinking and practices.

Who is an Agile Coach?

200

The legendary Benedictine monk who invented champagne.

Who is Dom Perignon?

200

As a coach you share what you see, hear and feel, not your judgement of it.

What is Observation?

200

Giving options, creating insights and evaluating their experiences. (aka Consultant)

What is an Advisor?

300

The Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team

What is the Scrum Team?

300

Works with individuals (usually executives, but often high-potential employees) to help them gain self-awareness, clarify goals, achieve their development objectives, unlock their potential, and act as a sounding board.

Who is an Executive Coach?

300

The world's biggest island.

What is Greenland?

300

Not necessarily a skill but very critical. Always being aware of what Coaching Stance you are in and knowing when to switch between them.

What is Self-Awareness?

300

The process of transferring learning from the mentor to the mentee. Useful when the mentee has knowledge to some extent, but lacks experience in the topic.

What is Mentoring?

400

Responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development.

Who is the Product Owner?

400

Aids their clients by helping to improve their relationships, careers, and day-to-day lives.

Who is a Life Coach?

400

Created at a ski resort in Utah by seventeen people who met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground—and of course, to eat.

What is the Agile Manifesto?

400

You provide the destination and guideposts but you allow the class to experience their way through the material.

What is Facilitation?

400

Ability to detect when the group you are coaching is lacking knowledge on some topic, explain the concepts in a clear way, answer questions related to those concepts, and verify that the group has indeed acquired the new knowledge.

What is Teaching?

500

A framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products.

What is Scrum?

500

Help to set direction, goals, targets and training for their teams of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.

Who is a Sports Coach?

500

Integrity, focus, and stewardship

What are Vanguard Values?

500

The speaker does the majority of the talking - They are the "star" of the show.

What is Presenting?

500

For the most part, you should operate in this stance.

What is Coaching?