Coaching agile software projects: tutorial proposal - ICSE 2010

Our tutorial for ICSE 2010 focuses on coaching agile software teams. Based on eight years of experience guiding agile software projects in the academia and industry, we focus in the tutorial on a coaching framework for agile software projects. The tutorial participants become familiar with coaching practices and gain experience with some of the practices. The tutorial has two main parts. In the first part, we present the coaching framework, including the goals, structure, and guiding principles. In the second part, we focus on the following central themes in agile development processes which, we suggest, are appropriate to be included in such a coaching framework: Teamwork and collaboration, time and measures, learning and reflection, and change and leadership. Since 2003, we have facilitated this tutorial and similar ones in different settings (industry, academia, conferences). The coaching framework, as well as the themes, case studies, and analysis approach presented in the tutorial, are summarized in our book Agile Software Engineering published by Springer in 2008 (Hazzan and Dubinsky, 2008).