Becoming an Agile Coach
Facilitating, teaching, mentoring, advising, leading, coaching — a good agile coach moves between all six constantly, and knowing which one the moment calls for is the actual skill. This course names each stance, shows you when to reach for it, and gives you the practice to shift between them on purpose instead of by instinct.
$350 · Taught by Scott Dunn, Certified Scrum Trainer · Digital badge, 4 SEUs/PDUs & a 2-year Scrum Alliance membership included
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Delve into the multifaceted role of guiding agile teams and organizations toward improved performance. Explore various coaching stances and techniques to foster collaboration, continuous improvement, and the adoption of agile principles.
Delve into the multifaceted role of guiding agile teams and organizations toward improved performance. Explore various coaching stances and techniques to foster collaboration, continuous improvement, and the adoption of agile principles.
Bringing a team? We also run private courses tailored to your organization. Contact us for more info →
The credential
Becoming an Agile Coach is an official Scrum Alliance microcredential in the Leadership and Coaching track. Attend the live session, participate, and it's yours — no exam, no follow-up assignment.
What you'll learn
Facilitating, teaching, mentoring, advising, leading, and coaching — the moves that let you meet a team exactly where it is, plus a case study to bring it all together.
Module 01
Run conversations that lead to real, shared decisions — while staying neutral, transparent, and trusted enough for a group to actually open up.
Module 02
Tell formal instruction apart from the informal, in-the-moment kind, and recognize which one a situation is actually asking for.
Module 03
Build a mentoring plan that fits both the person and the organization, and see where mentoring an individual differs from mentoring a group.
Module 04
Develop an advising mindset, share relevant experience without dictating the outcome, and build the trust that makes advice worth taking.
Module 05
Give a change a purpose people can rally around, and use storytelling and consistent example to build a culture of continuous learning.
Module 06
Adopt a genuine coaching mindset, build the core skills a coaching conversation calls for, and see how coaching a team differs from coaching an individual.
Case study
The session closes on a real-world scenario, applying all six stances to a coach navigating a fresh challenge in an unfamiliar environment.
Who it's for
You don't need "coach" in your title to benefit — you need moments where facilitating isn't enough and telling people what to do isn't either.
A grounded, practical entry point into the role — what it actually asks of you day to day.
The stances that let you guide adoption without just issuing direction from above.
Sharper coaching moves so the investment your organization already made actually pays off.
Already facilitating or leading? Learn to name the shift and make it on purpose.
Ready to expand a coaching toolkit that's currently doing most of its work through facilitation alone.
Growing their team-coaching abilities beyond whatever role they hold today.
Straight answer on prerequisites: there are none. Some familiarity with agile will help you follow along, but this course works whether you've run one retro or a hundred.
What's included
One afternoon, one credential, and a standing invitation to keep sharpening it with us.
The official Scrum Alliance Becoming an Agile Coach microcredential — shareable the day you finish.
Professional membership included with your seat — community, resources, and member pricing for two full years.
Members earn four Scrum Education Units and PDUs, applicable to your certification renewals.
Small enough that Scott works the scenarios directly with your questions, not a recorded lecture.
Your trainer
Founder, Rocket Nine Solutions · Certified Scrum Trainer
Scott has spent 20 years in the industry, working as a practitioner, coach, and trainer across every stage of agile adoption — including the early, uncertain stretch where most coaches are made or lost.
He's guided coaches and teams across 100s of organizations, from first-time Scrum Masters to seasoned leaders trying to name what "coaching" actually means for their role.
Scott has trained 1000s of people, and teaches this course as the practical follow-through he wishes more new coaches had — naming the stance you're in, on purpose, instead of defaulting to the one that's most comfortable.
Questions
It's the natural second step. Introduction to Agile Coaching lays the foundation — what coaching is and the presence it takes. This course goes further into the specific stances a coach moves through: facilitating, teaching, mentoring, advising, leading, and coaching. Neither is a strict prerequisite for the other, but they're designed to build in this order. From here the pathway continues into Agile Coaching Skills, Coaching for Change, and Coaching for Transformation — see the full pathway below.
No. There are no prerequisites, and this isn't only for people who already carry "coach" in their title — Scrum Masters and team leads get just as much out of it. Some familiarity with agile will help you follow the examples, but it's not required.
No exam. Attend the full live session and participate, and we register you for the Scrum Alliance Becoming an Agile Coach microcredential. Your digital badge follows shortly after.
One 4-hour live virtual session working through the six stances, closing on a real-world scenario. It's interactive by design, so plan on cameras on.
Yes — each attendee earns 4 SEUs and 4 PDUs, applicable toward Scrum Alliance and PMI renewals. A two-year Scrum Alliance membership is also included per seat.
Yes — a private session lets Scott shape the scenarios around situations your team is actually facing. Email hello@rocketninesolutions.com and we'll put together a plan.
The coaching pathway
These five Scrum Alliance microcredentials aren't prerequisites for each other, but they're designed to build in this order.
The foundations — what agile coaching is, and the presence it takes to hold space for a team.
The six stances of a coach, and knowing which one a moment actually calls for.
Practical technique-building for coaches ready to go deeper.
The skills to coach a whole organization as a single client.
Making sure the change you helped create actually survives.
Still deciding?
Not sure this is the right next step after Introduction to Agile Coaching, or wondering how it lines up with the rest of the pathway? Ask us directly.
Email us your question →The bigger picture
This course is the second of five stackable Scrum Alliance coaching microcredentials. See how they build on each other.
View the coaching pathway →One afternoon, one credential, and six stances you can call on the moment you need them. Pick your date.