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Dive deeper into agile and related topics through engaging discussions and shared learning experiences. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or just starting out, the Agile Open Community Book Club offers a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, exchange insights, and expand your agile knowledge.

Read / Meet Bi-Weekly

Join us every two weeks for interactive online sessions where we explore various agile concepts and themes. Our discussions go beyond the pages, diving into practical applications and personal experiences that enhance your understanding of agile principles.

Register / Install Discord / Meet on Discord

Register below to become a part of the Agile Open Community Book Club. Participation is free and gives you access to all our sessions. Simply install Discord to join our virtual meetings and be ready to engage with the community. Please note that books are not provided.

Gain SEUs / PDUs

Enhance your professional development by earning Scrum Education Units (SEUs) and PMI Professional Development Units (PDUs). Attending all sessions can earn you up to nine units, helping you maintain your certifications and continue your agile journey.

Beginners / Experts / Everyone

The Agile Open Community Book Club is open to all, from beginners to experts. It’s a welcoming space for anyone eager to learn, grow, and contribute to a vibrant community of agile enthusiasts.

Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching

Written by Robert L. Galen

Agile From First Principles

The profession of Agile Coaching is, in a word, confusing. That’s because of a number of factors, including:

  • Beyond Professional Coaching: Agile coaching often gets conflated with professional coaching, but it encompasses so much more. It includes a blend of leadership, mentorship, and guidance across various levels of an organization.

  • Lack of Standardization: There isn’t a standard or generally accepted model for what agile coaching is and isn’t, leading to varied interpretations and practices that can impact the effectiveness of coaching engagements.

  • Unbalanced Accountability: Clients often don’t fully understand agile coaching, resulting in unbalanced shared accountability between them and their coaches. This misunderstanding can lead to unmet expectations and subpar outcomes.

  • Nuanced Skills: Agile coaching requires specialized skills across different levels, including team, enterprise or organizational, technical, and leadership. Mastery of these nuanced skills is essential for effective coaching.

This confusion has created a space where nearly anyone can claim to be an Agile Coach with little experience and narrow skills, often leading to mediocrity and negative impacts for clients who are counting on and paying for professional guidance.

Bob Galen has written Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching to help alleviate this confusion. The book introduces the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as a competency and skill maturity model to baseline your agile coaching skills against. Its core goal is to “raise the bar” on what true excellence looks like and to help you establish a personal development and growth plan.

Bob intentionally uses the term Badass to create a vision of professionalism, craft, passion, accountability, and expertise that you need to bring to bear in service of your clients if you represent yourself as an “agile coach”.

Being an Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coach isn’t easy, quick, or for the faint of heart. It requires dedication, hard work, and a clear direction. This book serves as a map guiding you toward coaching excellence, personal growth, and outstanding client service.

Session Schedule

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How to Register for the Agile Open Community Book Club

  • Register using a link below and pay the entrance fee. Only register one time, the fee covers all sessions for that book.
  • Check your inbox for the registration email with all the information
  • Put the bi-weekly sessions in your calendar
  • Obtain your own copy of the book (any format). You can find this book here on Amazon.

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Who should attend?

Who should attend?

Agile Practitioners, especially ScrumMasters and Coaches

Learn a mental model on how to be a better agile coach and ScrumMaster.

Virtual Book Club Sessions
First Session

Tuesday October 29 at 3:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM ET
Friday October 30 at 7:00 AM JST / 9:00 AM AET

Following Sessions

Every other week at the same time. Further details available on Discord.

When and Where?

When and Where?

Why?

Why?

Learn, Network, and Grow

Explore book topics with other agilists, like minded people, and people with other perspectives.

Ideally this will help you perform better with the job you have or get the job you want.

What You Get

Valuable features of the Agile Open Book Club


Friendly and Helpful Community
Valuable Learning
Earn SEUs and PDUs
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