Agile Coaching and the Samman Method with Emily Bache

In this podcast episode, I welcome Emily Bache, Author, Technical Agile Coach with ProAgile. We talk about agile coaching, the Samman Method, peer reviews and various communication techniques and methods. Listen to our insightful conversation or read the edited transcript.

Edited Transcript

Darko Fabijan:
Hello, and welcome to Semaphore Uncut, a podcast for developers about building great products. Today, I’m excited to welcome Emily Bache. Emily, thank you so much for joining us. Can you please introduce yourself?

Emily Bache:
I’m a software developer and technical coach based in Sweden, although I grew up in the UK, and I’m delighted to be invited to talk to you.

Introduction

Darko Fabijan:
Great! Can you maybe give us some of the stepping stones through your career that led to you becoming a coach?

Emily Bache:
My career began in 1998 when I graduated with a degree in engineering and I got a job as a software developer doing Java. Then quite soon after that, in 2000, I moved to Sweden with my husband, and we’ve been in Sweden ever since.

And I landed on my feet because the first job I got in Sweden was a startup and it was Java again, and it was using extreme programming.

So, I really landed in this team of very good software developers. We were learning to write unit tests together and talking to the customer frequently in pair programming, and it was such a good experience.

I really got onto this whole agile and testing thing pretty early.

The Coding Dojo Handbook

Emily Bache:
Since then, I had got a job doing some Python and worked some consultant for many years, and started training people in test-driven developments using the Coding Dojo. I wrote a book about that in 2011, The Coding Dojo Handbook. And then I spent some time doing some architecture and test strategy.