Alex Kudinov

Evoking awareness is a gift coaches can give their clients. Forwarding that awareness through its application and actions is what makes good coaching masterful.

This blog post discusses client expectations from coaches.

Shu-Ha-Ri has been a frequent topic within Agile communities for years to capture the essence, the progress of the journey we embark on as we grow and learn better ways of working.

It really created the situation where we were able to have really honest conversations that have been suppressed before.

How many times a day are you walking into the conversation where people jump into discussing solutions that lead nowhere, lack a clear purpose for the people involved in the conversation, don’t make sense altogether without the additional “why” discussion? I know I am having those conversations day in and day out.

"You are not doing Scrum." How many times have you heard that? Scrum Police are a legion.

In the previous videos, I introduced the Creative reframing technique and discussed 2 Strategies for its practical use. In this final video, I will discuss several activities that agile coaches can use with their teams or clients to make use of the Creative reframing technique.

In the previous video, I spoke about the creative reframing technique, that coaches could use as a facilitation or professional coaching tool. This video goes over two main strategies that can be used with the method, namely, Backing from Solutions to Needs and What's Unchangeable about This Problem. {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/47ps79P_JHg.jpg?itok=JyM5DYkB","video_url":"https://youtu.be/47ps79P_JHg","settings":{"responsive":1,"width":"854","height":"480","autoplay":0},"settings_summary":["Embedded Video (Responsive)."]} In the next video, I will wrap up the discussion fo the creative reframing technique by discussing some activities that can make it more useful. Want to learn more about creative reframing and other facilitation techniques? Read Sam Kaner's fantastic book Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision Making

Creative reframing is an excellent facilitation and professional coaching technique that allows you to explore problems from various, sometimes unusual and unexpected angles.

Saying no is an integral part of any Product Owner's job. In this short video, I explore the reasons why we might be saying yes when no is a more appropriate answer (these reasons are from a great book by Dominica DeGrandis Make Work Visible) and how to say No when you need to.