Agile Coach Interview Questions

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Blogs to read:

• What is Agile?
• What is Agile Coaching?
• Team Coaching Contract
• People Managers as Coaches
• Approach to adopting Agile practices
• Handling Scope Creep inside Sprint
• Team Challenges in Retrospectives
• Distributed Team Challenges

Read and refer to the below interview questions:

• How do you define Agile?
• What is the need for Agile transformation?
• What is your approach to coaching an Organization?
• What are the different phases of change, and what are your responsibilities during each?
• What is the difference between a Sprint and an Iteration?
• How do Agile Coaches differ from Scrum Masters?
• How do you know when to Coach and When to Mentor?
• What is the fine line between Mentoring and Coaching?
• How do you ensure your acceptance in the team you are coaching?
• What is your stand when asked to come up with the budget for the project?
• If the team complains about frequent changes in requirements, what is your answer as an Agile Coach?
• How do you coach a Product Manager who always comes up with changing requirements due to Stakeholder pressure?
• What tools are you comfortable prescribing for the teams you are coaching?
• What is the right time to coach the individuals in a team?
• How do you approach a leader who is unwilling to take feedback?
• How is your typical day look like?
• What is your training approach?
• There is strong opposition from middle management to adopting agility; how will you handle that?
• How do you work towards changing the mindset of people in the workplace?
• What is your first reaction when faced with resistance?
• What are some of the challenges you have faced during your Agile Transformation?
• What does a transformation start with?
• How do you know that a change is taking place?
• What are some of the challenges you have faced with distributed teams?
• How do you manage distributed team conflicts?
• What is your conflict management approach?
• What are the different kinds of techniques that you have used for conducting retrospectives?
• What is your preferred estimation technique?
• How would you help a team adopt a story point technique from person-days or person-hours?
• How do we decide Sprint length?
• Is it possible to transform a Software development Organization just by using Extreme Programming practices?
•  How to build self-organization teams? Share a few examples from your experience. 
• What is your take on going with a scaling framework for transformations?
• What was the most challenging and pressing problem that you have faced in your experience?
• What is your triumphant moment as an Agile Coach?
• Why is an Agile Coach a Facilitator?
• For how many weeks or months do you think an Agile Coach is needed for the Organization?
• How many teams can an Agile Coach work with?
• What do you mean by co-creation?
• How do you establish a coaching contract with the team?
• How do you handle the resistance with the leadership team?
• How do you motivate the teams?
• What do you think about Agile Coaches keeping up to date in Technology?
• State your views on Agile Coaches needing Technical knowledge.
• What do you understand by Scaling? Is scaling necessary?
• How will you coach a Product Owner on Agility if that person is totally new to Agile ways of working? 
• In what ways will you help a team adopt extreme programming practices?
• When do you think a Product Backlog item needs slicing?
• How will you explain vertical slicing to the team?
• What is the difference between the cost of delay and the cost of production?
• What is an opportunity cost?
• What is the difference between output-based and outcome-based delivery?
• What are the key metrics that can help a team?
• What are the key metrics in an Agile Transformation?
• What are the key metrics at an Organizational level for Agile Coaching?
• One of the teams in the Organization is delivering significantly less velocity. How will you address this situation?
• How can you help the same team in handling new product development and as well as support issues?
• What is the optimum team size that works based on your experience?
• What are some of the Organizational impediments you have come across? And how do you address them?
• What are the coaching ethics that the Agile Coach should follow?
• What is the coaching boundary?

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