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...
Erin McManus
Agile Coach
Spotify
Erin McManus is an enthusiastic, results-driven leader with extensive experience working in digital teams and managing the delivery of digital products. She is a passionate agile practitioner and has been lucky to have been surrounded by some very cluey agilists in her career in Melbourne, Australia and now here in the United States. She thrives in agile software delivery teams, having played many roles over the last decade from product manager, program manager, agile coach and now engineering manager. Her mission is to always be learning more about the practices of companies that consider themselves Agile, and how they’re evolving their thinking and practices on what it takes to be an agile company.