In a scaled agile world of practitioners with diverse software development experience, how should leaders and coaches support teams' continuous improvement and ensure they are using best practices in engineering, ways of working, and culture? This is the question Spotify agile coaches Catherine Fleres and Erin McManus asked themselves over the last year. They’ll recount an approach in engaging teams from the start, instead of imposing specifics from leadership. Input was gathered from teams and leaders about what principles and engineering practices they value in order to create an...
Catherine Fleres
Spotify
Catherine Fleres is an Agile Coach who has worked at Spotify since January 2017. She specializes in coaching teams and leaders to help them build better products faster, and create a safe environment conducive to value delivery. Catherine started her agile journey by working as a consultant for Cisco, then worked with several other companies across the US before landing at Spotify. In that time she obtained the CSM, CSPO, and CSP certifications, as well as getting the opportunity to conduct training classes for these same courses alongside Rick Regueira, CEC. She speaks at Agile Conferences across the US, including Agile 2017, Agile Coach Camp NYC, and Open Space Orlando, on topics like Scrum, Kanban, Leadership, and Spotify. Today, Catherine lives with her husband and corgi in Highlands, NJ.