Interview prep
Agile Coach interview questions
13 questions agile coaches get asked, grouped by type. Under each one are the skills it is really testing, so you can pick a story from your own work that shows them.
Technical
- A manager starts using velocity to compare teams and rank performance. How do you address that?Tests: coaching, organizational change
- Two teams you coach want to run their process differently, one more structured and one lighter weight. How do you decide how much to standardize across them?Tests: judgment, organizational change
- A team says retrospectives feel repetitive and stop producing useful outcomes. How do you refresh that?Tests: facilitation, coaching
- You're asked to help stand up a brand-new team's way of working from scratch. Where do you start?Tests: facilitation, organizational change
Situational
- A team is going through the motions of agile ceremonies without actually changing how they work. How do you approach that?Tests: coaching, judgment
- Leadership says they support agile ways of working but keeps making commitments to customers that assume a fixed scope and date. How do you handle the gap?Tests: organizational change, communication
- A team starts treating you as the person who decides what work to prioritize, rather than as a coach. How do you respond?Tests: coaching, judgment
- How do you show that coaching a team actually improved something, when the changes are mostly about how people work together?Tests: judgment, communication
Behavioral
- Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker and how you handled it.Tests: conflict resolution, communication
- Describe a project or task that did not go well and what you did about it.Tests: ownership, reflection
- Give an example of persuading someone to adopt an idea they initially resisted.Tests: influence, communication
- Walk me through how you decided what to work on when you had more requests than time.Tests: prioritisation, judgment
- Tell me about a time you had to learn something new quickly to get a job done.Tests: learning agility, ownership
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