Coaching coaches

  • Authors:
  • Görel Hedin;Lars Bendix;Boris Magnusson

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden;Department of Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden;Department of Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • XP'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Extreme programming and agile processes in software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We have developed a tandem of undergraduate courses for teaching XP and coaching of XP teams. This paper focuses on the coaching course and the coaching practices we have developed. The tandem of courses enables us to give a challenging and interesting course for the coaches, and, at the same time, allows us to afford on-site coaches for the younger students, providing them with a high quality environment for learning XP. We also describe our experiences from the first instance of the courses and how we have tackled the bootstrapping problem.