Kevin Pedersen: How do you help a Scrum team that does not want to be coached? You have to be Agile as a coach! 

In this team there were big egos to deal with. These people were happy to work without the support of the Scrum Master. This raised an important question that we must tackle: how do you help a team that does not want to be coached? Kevin shares his approach in this team, and how slowly things started to turn around. Key lessons for all Scrum Masters.

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About Kevin Pedersen

Kevin is a Managing Director, agile coach and international trainer for Growing Agile in South Africa. He is passionate about helping people connect to their purpose. This is best described in Growing Agile’s vision ‘to grow people and inspire ideas so that they can be the best version of themselves and we do that by changing the way people think about work’.

You can link with Kevin Pedersen on LinkedIn and connect with Kevin Pedersen on Twitter.

One thought on “Kevin Pedersen: How do you help a Scrum team that does not want to be coached? You have to be Agile as a coach! ”

  1. Another powerful takeaway – if the team don’t want your help, or aren’t open to it – how to you approach helping them…..by asking questions and finding out which problems they consider important. Enjoyed that, thank you!

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