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What is your feeling on creating Agile apprenticeships?

Explore the potential of agile apprenticeships with Martin Hinshelwood as he discusses their importance in empowering the next generation in product development.

Published on 17 March 2023

Written by Martin Hinshelwood

3 minute read

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What is your feeling on creating Agile apprenticeships?

Forging Agile Apprenticeships

As I embark on the next phase of my professional journey, I’m zeroing in on creating agile apprenticeships. This progression feels like a natural evolution from my immersive learning approach.

Interestingly, I realise I’ve already planted this initiative’s seeds. Numerous individuals who have attended my training classes continue to engage, forming an organic, ongoing learning community and growing into what I now recognise as agile apprentices.😊

Open Invitation for Continuous Learning 📚

Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of introducing a myriad of professionals to the concepts of Agile through my training programmes. What has been truly fascinating to witness is the number of these individuals who choose to continue their learning journey with me, transforming our relationship into an ongoing, insightful hangout rich with Agile discussions. 🙌

In a bid to stimulate an environment of continuous learning, I’ve maintained an open invitation to anyone interested in booking a casual, 30-minute coffee chat with me. During these sessions, we can engage in an informal discourse on anything from Agile to Scrum to DevOps, fostering an enduring knowledge exchange. ☕

Added Consultation Incentive 🕰️

In addition, each participant from my training classes is rewarded with an additional hour of consulting time. Despite this incentive, I find it interesting learners don’t seize this opportunity. This statistic, although low, doesn’t deter me from providing this offer; rather, it solidifies my commitment to facilitate enduring engagements and fuel our collective Agile learning journey. 🔥

These initiatives - coffee chats, bonus consulting time, and an open invitation for continuous learning - all reflect my unwavering dedication to fostering an environment of growth, collaboration, and Agile wisdom. 🎓

Apprentice-Mentor Relationship

Take the case of one of my students, Rickard, who is a Scrum Master who frequently reaches out for additional consulting hours. Our interactions, whether revolving around his achievements, his need for guidance, or simply a sounding board for his ideas, always prove mutually enriching. 👥

This Scrum Master-Mentor model is a prototype of the Agile apprenticeship concept I envision. It involves creating a safe space for Scrum Masters and other professionals to express doubts, share victories, and seek advice. Sometimes, the most important feedback they can get is the assurance that they’re on the right track. Other times, they benefit from a fresh perspective and new strategies to experiment with. 🚀

Looking Forward to the Future of Agile Apprenticeships

So, I am looking forward to this new mentoring direction, eager to hear more success stories as people implement the teachings in real-life situations. After all, seeing these ideas come to life and bring about positive change is thrilling! 🚀

Let’s embark on this journey of learning and growth together!

Remember, whether it’s anything Agile, Scrum, or DevOps related, or just a good old coffee chat, I’m here for it. Let’s shape the future of Agile together! 💪

Contact me for more insights and discussions. I always love hearing from you and am quick to respond to your comments. 😊👍

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Oh, that’s great. So that what is my feeling on creating agile apprenticeships? I think it’s going to be the logical progression of the immersive story as well.

Um, and I feel like I do some of those things already. I have a number of people that have come through my training classes. That’s kind of how I got introduced to them.

That then just keep hanging out, right? That’s, uh, um, I don’t, I don’t, um, how best to describe it? Like I’ve always, at least for a very long time, I provided this capability for students, for anybody on the internet, just to book a coffee with me, right? Or, uh, a free consultation, right? Whatever you want to call it, freak on stage that cost 30 minutes.

But also for every training class, for every student, they get an extra 60 minutes of consulting time, right? And I think that lots of students don’t use it. I think I worked it out the other day. I looked at the data and it was about less than five percent of people that come through the classes actually used the one hour of coaching consulting.

So when, uh, for example, Rickard, who’s a scrum master, and when he comes back and says, “Can I get another hour?” or “Can I get another hour?” or he phones me in the evening to talk about the cool stuff that he’s been doing in the office and how it’s impacted on his team and to ask some questions and “What do you think might be better?” or, um, you know, even just he’s telling me about his awesome day, right?

That interaction for me is hugely valuable because Rickard’s getting more value, providing more value to his company, to his organisation because he’s able to, you know, maybe serve some extra information or even just chat. You know, sometimes you just need to chat with somebody who might even not know anything about what you’re talking about, right? But can provide you with a sounding board.

And if it’s somebody that, and that, that’s that, that, um, internship idea, right? Or, um, that ability for those scrum masters to have somebody that they can come and talk to, to say, “Well, I tried this and it didn’t work out. What am I doing wrong?” And it might be, “Well, you’re not doing anything wrong,” right? That could be the biggest value that they get from that conversation.

You’re not doing anything wrong. That’s just the way it works. Here’s something else you might want to try.

So I think that, um, mentoring internship model I think is really important to people’s learning. And I expect that off the iterative, the immersive type of training, that there’ll be a lot more of that type of experience for people and people wanting more of that experience.

So I’m actually really looking forward to that because I love having a chat and finding out how people are actually using the things that we’re talking about and being successful at it. Because so many times, um, companies that call me in to help are only calling me in to help when things aren’t going so well for them.

So I don’t see a lot of the successes, right? Because by the time those successes are generated, I’m already off to doing the next thing or working for the next company and they’re implementing the ideas. But being able to have those follow-on conversations where somebody’s actually implementing some of those ideas, trying stuff out, it’s just awesome.

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