What you'll learn:
- Develop the mindset and practical skills of an Agile Coach — beyond simply applying Agile frameworks
- Coach individuals and teams using active listening, powerful questions, feedback, and coaching conversations
- Diagnose teams and organizational systems through observation, interviews, value mapping, and evidence
- Assess outcomes, output, team health, Agile maturity, and flow using meaningful metrics without misusing them as targets
- Apply Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, and Agile practices based on context rather than one-size-fits-all rules
- Help teams improve customer value through research, experimentation, prioritization, and fast feedback loops
- Facilitate healthier teams by improving psychological safety, collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement
- Work with leaders, stakeholders, resistance, and organizational constraints to enable sustainable Agile change
Become an Agile Coach who can do more than teach frameworks. Learn how to coach people and teams, diagnose complex systems, facilitate change, and help organizations deliver better outcomes.
This course has been completely rebuilt and re-recorded for 2026, bringing together practical Agile Coaching skills, facilitation, team and systems diagnosis, product thinking, metrics, technical agility, modern tools, AI, and career development.
You will learn Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, OKRs, user stories, estimation, product discovery, and other practices — but this is not a course about memorizing frameworks and terminology.
Instead, you will learn to ask the questions an Agile Coach faces in the real world:
What is actually happening in this team? Why is work taking so long? What is preventing us from learning? What does the customer actually need? Which intervention would help — and when should I leave the system alone?
Because real organizations are messy. Frameworks are tools.
Your job as an Agile Coach is to understand the system, help people learn, and find the next useful experiment.
What You Will Learn
Think and work like an Agile Coach: Understand the role of an Agile Coach and learn when to coach, mentor, teach, facilitate, or consult
Coach individuals and teams: Develop active listening, powerful questioning, coaching conversations, feedback, psychological safety, conflict navigation, and professional boundaries
Diagnose teams and systems: Observe how work really happens, map value delivery, identify bottlenecks and dependencies, distinguish symptoms from underlying problems, and decide where to intervene
Facilitate conversations that lead to action: Design and facilitate Agile events, business meetings, workshops, difficult conversations, remote sessions, and continuous improvement
Apply Agile practices intelligently: Understand Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, adaptive planning, OKRs, retrospectives, and scaling approaches through the lens of the problems they are designed to solve
Coach product and customer thinking: Work with customer value, product discovery, assumptions and evidence, experiments, user stories, healthy backlogs, estimation, prioritization, and feedback loops
Measure what matters: Work with outcomes, outputs, team health, cycle time, lead time, throughput, WIP, velocity, OKRs, and coaching impact without turning metrics into performance targets
Understand technical agility without becoming an engineer: Learn the coaching implications of technical debt, CI/CD, built-in quality, DevOps, engineering flow, dependencies, handoffs, and architecture
Build your professional toolkit: Use Jira and other digital tools intelligently, create reusable coaching assets and workshop libraries, and use AI as a thinking partner without outsourcing your judgment
Build your Agile Coaching career: Learn how to develop experience before getting the title, present your work on your CV, prepare for interviews, evaluate potential employers, and understand the path toward Enterprise Agile Coaching
Handle messy real-world situations: Learn from practical coaching cases and “Golden Nuggets” covering situations that rarely look as clean as they do in Agile textbooks
Why This Course Is Different
Many Agile courses teach you how a framework is supposed to work.
Agile Coaching is a different job.
Knowing the Scrum events does not tell you what to do when a team doesn't want your help.
Knowing Kanban does not tell you why work keeps getting stuck between departments.
Knowing how to run a retrospective does not tell you why nothing changes afterwards.
And knowing Agile terminology does not tell you how to challenge a leader, coach a Product Owner, talk to engineers when you are not technical, or recognize that the team's problem may have nothing to do with Agile at all.
An Agile Coach needs to listen before diagnosing, diagnose before prescribing, and experiment before imposing solutions.
Throughout the course, I share practical examples, mistakes, interventions, and lessons from my own work with teams, leaders, and organizations — including situations where textbook Agile simply did not fit.
The goal is not to make every team look Agile.
The goal is to help people and systems think, learn, adapt, and deliver better outcomes for their customers.
What You'll Get
A completely rebuilt 2026 curriculum with newly recorded lessons throughout the course
Practical Agile and Agile Coaching lessons covering the journey from foundational skills to real-world coaching situations
Real-world examples, coaching cases, and practical interventions
Additional Agile Coaching resources and tools
Team Barometer — my framework-independent tool for assessing team health and starting meaningful improvement conversations
Team assessment, facilitation, and retrospective tools
Practical guidance for using AI as an Agile Coach
Product, customer, technical, team, process, and organizational perspectives in one curriculum
Career guidance for aspiring and experienced Agile Coaches
Lifetime access to future course improvements and additional Golden Nuggets
Who This Course Is For
This course is designed for:
Aspiring Agile Coaches who want to build the practical skills needed for their first coaching role
Scrum Masters ready to move beyond facilitating events and support teams, leaders, and systems more broadly
Product Owners and Product Managers who want to strengthen customer focus, discovery, collaboration, and delivery
Project Managers transitioning toward Agile ways of working
Team Leads and Managers who want to create healthier, more adaptive teams
Consultants and transformation professionals supporting organizational change
Experienced Agile practitioners who know the frameworks but want stronger coaching, facilitation, diagnostic, and systems-thinking skills
People new to Agile who want to understand not only how Agile practices work, but why they work and when to use them
You do not need to be a software engineer or an expert in every Agile framework. The course will give you the foundations you need while teaching you how to think beyond the framework itself.
Your Instructor
I'm Masha Ostroumova, an Enterprise Agile Coach and founder of Agile Apothecary.
I have been working with Agile teams, leaders, and organizations for 14 years, across different industries and countries, including work with McKinsey & Company, Indeed, and Rakuten.
In recent years, much of my work has focused on large-scale organizational change — helping organizations improve not only their Agile practices, but also the structures, decision-making, collaboration, and systems surrounding their teams.
I have also been teaching Agile and related topics professionally for more than six years, with 170,000+ students across my courses.
More than 23,000 students have already joined Becoming an Agile Coach, which currently holds a 4.5/5 rating on Udemy.
This 2026 edition brings together what I have learned from years of coaching, consulting, teaching, experimenting, making mistakes, and seeing Agile applied in very different real-world environments.
Move Beyond Knowing Agile
You don't need to become the person in the room who knows the most Agile terminology.
You need to become the person who can look at a complicated situation and ask:
What's actually happening here?
What matters?
And what could we try next?
If you want to move beyond simply knowing Agile and learn how to actually coach people, teams, and systems, this course is for you.
Start learning today and build the mindset, skills, and practical toolkit of a modern Agile Coach.
