It’s the second episode of The Agile Coach, entitled “Establishing Trust”! Skip Angel and Michael Tardiff explore how an Agile coach establishes trust with those she or he is trying to help…and what can happen when that trust is lost.

We’re seeing an increasing number of clients with distributed Agile development teams. Although this runs somewhat counter to simplistic views of Agile development practices, which focus on co-located teams, it is a much more realistic reflection of actual global development practices. Global, agile teams are here to stay. As a result, we need to extend and adapt existing agile principles and practices, and, at times, create some new ones.

What’s “The Agile Coach”? It’s a new podcast from SolutionsIQ that explores the challenges and joys of coaching Agile teams.

In my previous post, I provided an example of a non-software project that successfully used traditional project management. Now it’s time to discuss how these same techniques lead to different results, when applied to a software project.