Colin Deady
Colin is Head of Product and Innovation for Capita Application Services. He helps cross-functional geographically separated teams discover their own agility and ways of collaboration.
Colin is a BDD practitioner and Shift Left advocate: he enables teams to transition from old-school manually intensive approaches to Agile delivery, emphasising value discovery and the importance of constant communication between all stakeholders.
Previously Colin ran a BDD practice for Capita enabling the iterative delivery of working software that meets needs, expectations and requirements. His teams would continuously track against a desire for Zero-Known Defects: they did not maintain defect lists; they produced working systems.
While Colin’s degree was Environmental Science what he really learnt was crtitical thinking. This led him into a career in software testing for the first 15 years post-university.
Colin talks about agility, BDD and ZKD at conferences across the UK.
Talks I've Given
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Ceci N’est Pas Un Scrum
Featuring Martine Devos, Colin Deady and Gitte Klitgaard
How exciting! "Agile is mainstream," and there are now hundreds of thousand of Scrum “masters”. Is that great? Or is it that we fell in a trap? We can sell books, talks, coaching services and classes, but we can not buy and sell ideas.
scrum agile people -
Structured Stream: Gamifying the Obvious to Unblock Outcomes
Featuring Colin Deady
Every year, every conference we dismiss using BDD to test the obvious for our applications: "It's been done to death; don't write a Gherkin for login; there are surely no more boundaries to find value here" you exclaim. The truth is slightly more complex. Seemingly...
bdd unconference
If it's "average" then change something, anything. It may make a huge difference.
Colin is Head of Product and Innovation for Capita Application Services. He helps cross-functional geographically separated teams discover their own agility and ways of collaboration. Colin is a BDD practitioner and Shift Left advocate: he enables teams to transition from old-school manually intensive approaches to Agile delivery, emphasising value discovery and the importance of constant communication between all stakeholders.
Previously Colin ran a BDD practice for Capita enabling the iterative delivery of working software that meets needs, expectations and requirements. His teams would continuously track against a desire for Zero-Known Defects: they did not maintain defect lists; they produced working systems.
While Colin’s degree was Environmental Science what he really learnt was crtitical thinking. This led him into a career in software testing for the first 15 years post-university.
Colin talks about agility, BDD and ZKD at conferences across the UK.