Neal Horner
I am a pragmatic Agile Coach with over fourteen years of VUCA experience to positively influence organisational practices and learning for greater success, supporting those ‘doing agile’, guiding those ‘being agile’ and bringing agile to life for those 'getting on with it' who value cool ways to make things better.
My leadership success has what it takes to establish the ‘pull’ to nurture agile, in process and mindset. I have a proven track record with software development, more people than tech, and I have been fortunate to also apply this to some non-IT early adopters (Human Resources, Marketing Transformation and multi-partner Service Incubators).
I proactively build relationships to nurture rapport and trust. This cultivates new levels of safety, openness and participation. Those meaningful relationships seek to support a shared understanding of ‘flow’, where we can clearly identify, consider and navigate the upstream and downstream practices that will inadvertently constrain what can be achieved.
Leading by example, I walk the talk, day after day, month after month, to actively nurture and promote the importance of people first. This spark ignites empowerment to guide momentum towards the necessary cultural change for teams and their leaders. This is where the elusive magic you seek, happens.
Certified Agile Leader CAL1, CAL2 + Academy
Certified Professional Coaching Agile Transformations ICP - CAT
Certified Professional Enterprise Agile Coaching ICP - ENT
Certified Professional Agile Coaching ICP - ACC
Certified Professional Agile Team Facilitation ICP - ATF
International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring Accredited Fellow
Listen to your System
to help recognise the need of the organisation
Direct, coach, support and delegate as a seasoned agility coach and mentor
Facilitate clear decision
to navigate the challenges of
agile transformation
Recognise and celebrate
the best from people
Establish clear
practices
Engage people
to be their best
Accredition, Certificaiton & Training
Agile Coaching Value
Build and maintain meaningful relationships and rapport
Bring to life ‘the fun’ in work (social, lunches, books)
Reduce distributed challenges by asking teams
Workshop(s) to capture the delivery value stream
Workshop(s) to capture the Product value stream
Nurturing Change
Use Agile Games to explore awarenss and open minds
Empower to recognise and celebrate success
Help others to lead by example, walk the walk, be the change
Encourage and reward greater self-awareness and kindness
Consider the cultural habits that slow and constrain success
Great Scrum Stuff
Artifacts
Sprint Backlog
Regular Product backlog refinement
Potentially Shippable Increment
Ceremonies
Sprint Planning
Daily Scrums / Stand-Ups / Call-Ins
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective to inspect and adapt
Extra Value
Definition of Ready (DoR)
Definition of Done (DoD)
Most Valued Player (MVP)
Sprint Celebration
Communities of Practice (CoP)
Short impromptu Stand-Ups
Big team Stand-Ups to cascade
Team level Burndown charts to show progress against Sprit
Product level Burnup charts to show progress against product
Just Cool Things
Team Health awareness to maintain goodness
Regular team socials to go beyond work
Make Sprint Reviews accessible to all
Seek to identify the delivery value stream
Leadership invited to walk the team walls and engage
Reach agreement not to attend all meetings
Unoffical Toastmasters groups to practice presentation skills