Coaching Agile Teams: How to Improve Agile Team Performance

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Coaching Agile Teams: How to Improve Agile Team Performance

This course is part of Improving Team Performance Specialization

Instructor: Madecraft

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

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5 hours to complete

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

5 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

How to build a strong agile foundation that improves alignment, communication, and team performance.
How to identify and resolve team dysfunctions while turning agile ceremonies into value-driven practices.
How to align cross-team work to business priorities using metrics and value stream mapping.

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There are 4 modules in this course

This course will teach you how to build a strong agile foundation, improve performance within and across teams, and create value streams that accelerate delivery. You’ll learn how to diagnose and resolve team dysfunctions, facilitate high-impact agile ceremonies, align work to business priorities, use metrics effectively, and engage leadership and stakeholders in meaningful ways.

Agile is widely adopted, yet many teams struggle with misalignment, ineffective meetings, and unclear value delivery. In this course, you’ll gain practical, real-world strategies to unify teams around a shared vision and strengthen collaboration across the organization. You’ll explore how to turn ceremonies into value-add opportunities, map and improve processes, and calculate efficiency to prioritize meaningful change. What makes this course unique is its end-to-end coaching perspective. Rather than focusing only on frameworks, it equips you with actionable tools to improve performance from the level of a single team to enterprise-wide alignment. Whether you’re an agile coach, team lead, or transformation champion, this course will help you drive measurable, sustainable improvements in team performance.

Change can create uncertainty, but when you lay the right foundation, you turn hesitation into alignment and momentum. In this module, you’ll learn how to communicate change clearly and articulate a compelling value proposition, so you can build trust, reduce resistance, and gain meaningful buy-in from the start.

What's included

3 videos1 assignment1 discussion prompt

Even the most talented teams can struggle with misalignment, unproductive meetings, and hidden dysfunctions that quietly drag down performance. In this module, you’ll learn how to strengthen team alignment, improve collaboration, and address dysfunction head-on, so your team can operate with clarity, accountability, and consistently high performance.

What's included

5 videos1 reading1 assignment2 discussion prompts

5 videos Total 15 minutes

Optimize Your Meetings 3 minutes
Build a Working Agreement 3 minutes
Leverage Change Champions 3 minutes
Commit to Unification 4 minutes
Map and Solve Dysfunctions 3 minutes

1 reading Total 10 minutes

Meetings Worth Keeping 10 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Improve Team Performance 30 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 20 minutes

Which Meeting Needs the Most Help? 10 minutes
Identifying Your Change Champions 10 minutes

As your organization grows, misalignment between teams can quietly stall progress, dilute impact, and create competing priorities. In this module, you’ll learn how to create alignment across teams and leadership, so you can turn scattered efforts into coordinated momentum that drives measurable business impact.

What's included

5 videos2 assignments3 discussion prompts

5 videos Total 14 minutes

Facilitate Cross-Team Meetings 3 minutes
Demonstrate Value With Metrics 4 minutes
Focus on Business Needs 2 minutes
Involve Leadership 3 minutes
Engage the Appropriate Stakeholders 3 minutes

2 assignments Total 60 minutes

From Data to Decisions 30 minutes
Aligning Teams, Metrics, and Stakeholders 30 minutes

3 discussion prompts Total 30 minutes

Designing Meetings That Matter 10 minutes
Making Metrics Matter 10 minutes
Engaging the Right Voices 10 minutes

When work moves slowly and dependencies pile up, it is often a sign that the system, not the people, needs attention. In this module, you’ll learn how to identify and map your high-level processes, measure efficiency, and design cross-functional value streams so you can remove bottlenecks, reduce delays, and help teams deliver value faster across the organization.

What's included

5 videos2 assignments1 discussion prompt

5 videos Total 14 minutes

Identify the High-Level Process 3 minutes
Map the Process 3 minutes
Calculate Process Efficiency 3 minutes
Create Cross-Functional Value Streams 3 minutes
Start From the Bottom 2 minutes

2 assignments Total 60 minutes

Process Flow Fundamentals 30 minutes
Improving Team Performance: From Alignment to Flow 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

Finding the Biggest Delays 10 minutes

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