Course Description
The Agile Coach certification teaches important skills for guiding and developing teams, focusing on teams and organizations as human systems. It emphasizes understanding professional coaching skills and their value in supporting agile teams.
This certification focuses on the mindset, roles, and responsibilities of an Agile Coach. Upon completion, participants will be able to distinguish between mentoring, facilitating, coaching, and teaching, and they will also acquire skills to foster a safe environment for effective collaboration and conflict resolution within a team.
Whether the coach works inside or outside the organization, agile coaching involves various activities such as teaching, mentoring, problem-solving, planning, leadership, team-building, and mastering skills and knowledge. Agile Coaches play a crucial role in encouraging organizations to adopt new cultural paradigms that promote agile-lean thinking and rapid value delivery.
Detailed Learning Outcomes
By earning the Project Management Certification (PMC), candidates demonstrate the ability to:
Module 1 - Foundation
- What Does an Agile Coach Do?
- Developing a Coaching Attitude
- Getting Ready to Coach
- How to Start Coaching
- Maintaining the Pace
- Hurdles
- Checklist
Module 2 - Working with People
- Active Listening
- Providing Feedback
- Resolving Conflicts
- Building Consensus
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 3 - Leading Change
- Introducing Change
- Asking Powerful Questions
- Promoting Learning
- Facilitating Meetings
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 4 - Building an Agile Team
- Fostering Team Collaboration
- Creating a Supportive Team Environment
- Balancing Team Roles
- Motivating the Team
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 5 - Daily Standup
- Conducting Daily Standup Meetings
- Supporting Team Collaboration
- Addressing Issues
- Setting Meeting Time
- Guiding Team Members
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 6 - Understanding Product Development
- Understanding User Story Lifecycle
- Encouraging Collaborative Discussions
- Utilizing Agile Cards
- Validating Requirements
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 7 - Planning Ahead
- Preparing for Planning Sessions
- Understanding Work Priorities
- Estimating Work
- Reviewing and Committing to Work
- Tracking Progress
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 8 - Keeping Work Visible
- Utilizing Team Boards
- Creating Visible Charts
- Maintaining Team Boards
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 9 - Completing Work
- Test Ownership
- Defining Completion Criteria
- Planning for Testing
- Managing Defects
- Seeking Early Feedback
- Recovering from Incomplete Work
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 10 - Test-Driven Development
- Introducing Test-Driven Development
- Implementing Continuous Integration
- Sustaining Test-Driven Development Practices
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 11 - Writing Clean Code
- Adopting Incremental Design
- Promoting Collective Code Ownership
- Practicing Pair Programming
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 12 - Demonstrating Progress
- Preparing for Product Demos
- Engaging Everyone in Demos
- Releasing Software Iteratively
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 13 - Continuous Improvement with Retrospectives
- Facilitating Retrospective Meetings
- Designing Effective Retrospectives
- Expanding Retrospective Scope
- Overcoming Challenges
Module 14 - Personal Growth
- Strategies for Professional Development
- Creating a Growth Plan
- Expanding Professional Network
- Reflecting on Personal Growth
- Overcoming Challenges
Certification Validity & Renewal
The Project Management Certification (PMC) issued by GIPMC is valid for three (3) years from the date of certification award.
Renewal is designed to:
- Maintain professional credibility
- Ensure continued alignment with modern project practices
- Protect the long-term value of the certification
Renewal Process Includes:
- Completion of defined continuing professional development or knowledge refresh requirements
- Successful renewal assessment or verification, as applicable
- Submission of renewal application before certification expiry
Timely renewal allows professionals to retain active certification status without interruption.