Our Coaching Approach
Our Coaching Approach
Artisan coaches have one goal: Sustainability.
We help organizations, teams, and individuals help themselves.
Artisan Agility believes strongly in INSPIRED TEAMS and PASSIONATE LEADERS. Our coaches:
- Assess what’s currently happening by talking with team members, leaders, and managers;
- Observe how teams and individuals work together;
- Understand how processes and tools are used to support the work.
Then, we begin the work to offer the best approach to help everyone continue their growth and achieve their goals. Our founder, Jim Schiel, has always said that the primary job of a manager or leader is to remove themselves from the critical workflow. We believe coaches play the same kind of role — assess, observe, support, and coach with the goal of making the individual, team, and organization self-sustaining.
Our 3 Types of Coaching
Organizational Coaching
Team Coaching
Individual Coaching
Testimonials
Here’s what some of our clients had to say about us:
“I took a Scrum Master course and was completely impressed. Agile and Scrum are concepts that do not exist in a vacuum. Without real business contexts, and especially real software development experience, Agile doesn’t mean much. It was Jim’s ability to teach the material with his finger always on best practices that made the class a home run.”
“I recently took the Certified ScrumMaster class. Not only did our instructor thoroughly understand the course material and knows how to teach it well but he also has many real-world examples to further enhance one’s learning. I really enjoyed the class and learned a lot!”
“CSM training with Artisan was the best training that I have ever taken. The class was lively and interactive. They covered Agile fundamentals and material relevant to the CSM exam. They were not hesitant to take questions and had lots of examples from real world experience. I passed the CSM exam with an almost perfect score without help from any other sources.”
“I had the pleasure of attending a 2-day seminar on Agile and it was fantastic. If you are looking to improve your understanding of Agile from someone who has done it (not just someone who read it) for years, Artisan is the one. I have attended many other seminars but none as plain and simple. Most coaches add an unnatural aura to Agile as if it were some mystic and ancient magic. Artisan presents these concepts in a dispassionate yet highly precise manner.”
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Recent Blog Posts
Why a Forecast is SO MUCH BETTER Than a Commitment
The Scrum Guide says that a Scrum team makes a forecast during Sprint Planning, but managers want a commitment. What’s the difference and why is a forecast much better than a commitment?
A Bigger Product Backlog Isn’t a Better One
Product Backlogs should be relatively short. The longer they get, the harder they are to use effectively. In this blog post, I talk about why a large Product Backlog is bad news and what you can do to fix it.
A “Reality Framework” for Metrics
Thanks to 20th century management theory, the world is filled with metrics and measures that are questionable. Many are useless. For example, a commonly used but effectively useless metric for knowledge creation workers (like those in IT, marketing, and other creative careers): utilization. Utilization is a metric that was meant to measure the percentage
Evaluating the Performance of a Scrum Master
Measuring the performance of an employee is never easy to do. It’s made much more difficult when we have a hard time understanding exactly what a person is supposed to be doing. In this blog post, we’ll clear up all of your questions about Scrum Masters, their accountabilities, and how
