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Rachel Davies, Author of the first book on "Agile Coaching"

Rachel Davies

Biography: Rachel Davies

Rachel is co-author of the first “Agile Coaching” book and the UK’s leading expert in coaching agile teams. She is internationally recognized and presents at industry conferences worldwide. Rachel has over 20 years experience in software development in a variety of roles from software developer to manager. She has worked as an agile practitioner since 2000 and utilizes a range of agile methods including XP, SCRUM, Lean/Kanban, and DSDM. She has extensive experience facilitating retrospectives and user story workshops.

You may contact her at rachel@industriallogic.com

Training: Coaching Teams Through Change - SOLD OUT

Track: Tutorial / Time: Tuesday 09:00 - 12:00 / Location: Wordsworth

SOLD OUT
 
When you come to a conference like QCon, you pick up new ideas that you'd like to try when you get back to work. However, you may feel like you hit a brick wall when it comes persuading your team to try the idea out. Resistance is very common in organisations large and small. As an agile coach, I've learned that forcing adoption of new practice results in minimal compliance. Teams who don't want to be try the new approach often fall back to old ways of doing things. Come to get some tips for getting to the heart of resistance and how to dissolve barriers to adopting new working practices. We'll also do some practical exercises in Force-Field Analysis to generate ideas that get your team moving in the right direction.

Training: Effective Retrospective

Track: Tutorial / Time: Tuesday 13:00 - 16:00 / Location: Wordsworth

A retrospective is a meeting held at the end of a development iteration or software release to help a team identify ways to improve their effectiveness. The workshop explores how to plan and facilitate a retrospective with some practical group exercises. We also cover how to turn ideas for improvement into real change. Come to this session to share your experiences implementing change with agile teams and pick up some tips for better retrospectives.