DaveKirby

I am a coach and consultant for the software industry, working with individuals and software development teams to help them work at peak performance while having more fun and a better work-life balance. I do this primarily through coaching, and also where appropriate I provide consulting and mentoring for companies who wish to introduce agile development methods such as Extreme Programming.

I worked as a software developer for twenty years, and suffered my fair share of deathmarch projects along the way. I have seen teams work well together, and teams that degenerated until they were at each other's throats. I have also had a long standing interest in the behaviour of people and of human systems - I did a degree in Psychology and Cybernetics before I was seduced into the world of commercial programming.

I also have had a life-long interest in personal development, and over the last few years trained as an NLP practitioner and Master Practitioner. I discovered that I had a love of, and talent for, working with other people to help them resolve difficult issues in their lives, so went on to train as a Life Coach.

I have now set up in business as TheDevelopersCoach? to combined my knowledge of personal development and team dynamics with my years of experience of software development. My dream is of a world without deathmarch projects, where developers can work together in teams that are effective, efficient, flexible and fun; where the joy of programming is not bludgeoned out of them by impossible schedules and toxic teams; and where software companies get high quality software that does what the users want, in a timescale that the managers want.

I can be contacted at [email protected]

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