What are Loaned Agile Expertise and Agile Coaching?

When implemented correctly, Agile has the power to transform your business! Your teams are more self-sufficient and productive, your stakeholders are happier, and your final deliverables are more successful.

But what happens when Agile isn’t working well within your team? Instead of being an asset, Agile becomes an impediment. 

Can you relate to any of these pain points?

• You’re trying to implement Agile but your team doesn’t know the basics

• Your Scrum Master or Product Owner has other responsibilities outside the Scrum Team Your backlog (if you even have one) is disorganized and not prioritized

• Your Stakeholders and Leadership don’t understand Agile

• Your Team is resentful of the new processes

Sometimes there’s only so much you can do on your own to overcome these challenges.

To get your Agile implementation back on the right track and to succeed as an Agile organization going forward, we recommend Agile Coaching or Loaned Agile Expertise. 

Agile Coaching

If your team is struggling with Agile implementation, our embedded coaches work side-by-side with you to implement better processes, hold better meetings, and fully maximize Agile.

Our coaches have seen and done it all. What seems like an impassible roadblock to your team is just another day for our experienced coaches. We bring combined decades of applied experience to help your team navigate even the most difficult problems.

Having a coach that’s not directly a part of your team helps provide an objective outlook to your Agile implementation. They’ll help identify your pain points and encourage growth without holding any biases.

Bringing a coach into your organization gives you direct access to resolving impediments. Rather than getting generic advice, our coaches sit with you in meetings, learn about your products, and get a feeling for your culture. They then offer specific advice with immediate actionable items they can help you navigate and fix.

Loaned Agile Expertise

Finding, interviewing, and hiring skilled Agile experts is a long and difficult process. But did you know that you can borrow the team members and skills you need? If your team is at capacity or underperforming, you may need more than an Agile Coach. ClearlyAgile’s Loaned Agile Expertise can put the right person in the right seat to get the job done. That leaves you time to focus on what matters—your customers and their product.

From borrowed Scrum Masters to Product Owners, our team becomes your team and simultaneously gets projects and tasks completed while also transferring knowledge to your team.

Consider our Loaned Agile Expertise a la carte—your company can borrow just one Product Owner, or we can send an entire team to work alongside your current team!

Our experts will not only come and work alongside you to build your product and help clear your backlog, they’ll also help identify ways to improve your processes, communicate better with Stakeholders, and build a stronger product. Our loaned Agile experts focus on producing the best results, fast, while also transferring knowledge to your team for long-term success.

We’re not saying your team is incomplete without us, but we’d like to come join your team as a Coach or Loaned Agile Expert to help with knowledge transfer, evolve your culture, and break through roadblocks. Rather than spinning your wheels and trying to resolve issues on your own (or abandoning Agile altogether), our Coaches or LAEs can help pinpoint your issues and either guide you through them or work alongside you to resolve them.

If either of these spark your interest, reach out to us and we can listen to your pain points and see whether Loaned Agile Expertise or Agile Coaching is right for you!