Neal Horner
I am a pragmatic Agile Coach with over thirteen years of VUCA experience to positively enable organisational learning for greater success, supporting those ‘doing agile’, those ‘being agile’ and those who value real world experience.
I have what it takes to establish the ‘pull’ to nurture agility, in process and mindset. My leadership success has been crafted with software development and applied to some non-IT early adopters in Human Resources, Marketing Transformation and experiments with Service Incubators.
I proactively seek to establish rapport and built trust, as this encourages new levels of safety, openness and transparency. Those meaningful relationships seek to support a shared understanding of ‘flow’ so we can clearly identify, consider and navigate the upstream and downstream constraints that will impact what can be achieved.
I lead by example, to walk the talk, day after day, month after month, to actively nurture and promote the importance of team health. This creates a new spark and sense of empowerment to deliver momentum for the necessary cultural change for teams and their leaders.
I am an accredited Fellow Coach and accredited Fellow Mentor with the IAP C&M. With the right people and good rapport, I can offer 1:1 sessions with individuals to consider their self-awareness, their self-talk and their day to day interactions in thier world.
Certified Agile Leader CAL1 + CAL2
Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster CSP-SM
Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner CSP-PO
Scaled Agile Framework Programme Consultant V4 SAFe SPC4
International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring Accredited Fellow
Listen to your System
to help recognise the need of the organisation
Direct, coach, support and delegate as a seasoned agility coach and mentor
Facilitate clear decision making
to navigate the challenges of
agile transformation
Recognise and celebrate
the best from people
Establish clear
practices for success
Engage people
to think and grow
Accredition, Certificaiton & Training
Coaching Value
Build and maintain meaningful relationships and rapport
Bring to life ‘the fun’ in work (social, lunches, books)
Reduce distributed challenges by asking teams
Workshop(s) to capture the delivery value stream
Workshop(s) to capture the Product value stream
Nurturing Change
Use Agile Games to explore awarenss and open minds
Empower to recognise and celebrate success
Help others to lead by example, walk the walk, be the change
Encourage and reward greater self-awareness and kindness
Consider the cultural habits that slow and constrain success
Scrum Stuff
Artifacts
Sprint Backlog
Regular Product backlog refinement
Potentially Shippable Increment
Ceremonies
Sprint Planning
Daily Scrums / Stand-Ups / Call-Ins
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective to inspect and adapt
Extra Value
Definition of Ready (DoR)
Definition of Done (DoD)
Most Valued Player (MVP)
Sprint Celebration
Communities of Practice (CoP)
Short impromptu Stand-Ups
Big team Stand-Ups to cascade
Team level Burndown charts to show progress against Sprit
Product level Burnup charts to show progress against product
Just Cool Things
Team Health awareness to maintain goodness
Regular team socials to go beyond work
Make Sprint Reviews accessible to all
Seek to identify the delivery value stream
Leadership invited to walk the team walls and engage
Reach agreement not to attend all meetings
Unoffical Toastmasters to practice presentation skills