Team Practices Group/Agile Coaching Lifecycle

Coaching Lifecycle Decisions:


 * TPG Experiments with using the diagram as a reference in discussions:
 * Try to process new requests (from teams asking for TPG help) using the model
 * Pilot model as part of onboarding new hire

Lifecycle Benefits Lifecycle Risks
 * Clarity of expectations
 * Could clarify roles for job description and hiring
 * Might distinguish coaching from scrum masteringRetention
 * Clarifies to the rest of the org what we do
 * Clearer expectations for TPG and possibly customers
 * Scale/serve more teams
 * Allows TPG to scale
 * Lets us spread to more teams
 * Enables TPG to serve non-eng/tech teams
 * Reduces lock-in so TPGers can switch teams
 * Improves planning
 * Gives advance notice for budgeting (predictability)
 * For TPG & teams
 * Clarity of how we measure what we do/managing delivery
 * Defined phases give us metrics and measurability
 * Lets us compare different engagements
 * Helps us build a rubric of competencies of customers
 * Consistency of TPG services could be improved
 * Shared vocabulary across the org
 * Standardization of 4 stages (content & engagement)
 * Relations w/customers and potential customers
 * Existing engagements: change would be resisted
 * Would expose historic inequality of TPG support
 * Requires org-wide agreement on funding scrum masters
 * Roles
 * Where do Scrum Masters fit in?
 * Predictability & time constraint
 * “Support” could last forever
 * All transitions are likely to be late or resisted
 * Seems really difficult to project timelines (and thus TPG people planning) in advance, due both to previous factor and to team variability
 * Scope/diff of each stage unclear
 * Unclear how to fit one model of coaching into multiple roles
 * Assessment
 * Introduces complexity to balancing work
 * Cost of evaluating consistency among TPGers
 * Who determines maturity of team?
 * Getting standardized
 * Effort needed to develop standardization
 * Need to standardize to a degree not currently supported by consensus (TPG & WMF)
 * In the short term, term introduces more work to TPG
 * Other
 * Might be vulnerable to org or budget chaos
 * Fear of locking into process too tightly