If you’re enjoying the insights shared here on the blog, you might enjoy my training too.
Samman Technical Coaching is an approach to improving team engineering skills and adopt effective practices for agentic AI development.
To learn more about this training, just click the link below.
Clinical Trials and Software Process Note: this article first appeared here In the Accelerate book, researchers explain several metrics which they have shown will measure the performance of a DevOps organization, and crucially, drive performance of the organization as...
When you inherit difficult code it can take weeks to become productive. Having the right tools for the job and knowing how to use them makes a huge difference. These videos show you how. Note: this post originally appeared here...
Three factors affecting your agility Note: this post originally appeared here https://www.praqma.com/stories/coding-is-like-baking/ Let’s talk about cakes and baking. It’s similar to making software. No really! How quickly you can bake a fantastic cake depends on...
A write-up on learning away from work Note: this post originally appeared on Praqma's blog Do you work on any hobby coding projects in your free time? Practice code katas? We all wish we could, but making time for learning away from work isn’t possible for everyone....
Note: this article was first published on Praqma's website Experiences Pairing with Llewellyn Falco How does a Technical Agile Coach improve work in a development team? When Llewellyn Falco asked me to pair with him at a client I jumped at the chance to see how...
This post was originally published on Praqma's blog A short story about Pre-tested Integration Three programmers Continuous Integration and Code Review are strongly correlated with success. Many use Pull Requests for code review, but for co-located teams this...
This post was originally published on Praqma's blog Continuous Integration is now synonymous with having a server set up to build and test any change submitted to a central repository. But this isn’t the only way, or even how CI used to work. What did we do before...
Fictitious people that might get real - and sue you! Finding realistic data for testing is often a headache, and a good strategy is often to fabricate it. But what if your randomly generated data turns out to belong to a real person? What if they complain and you get...
As a woman programmer, I have noticed there is something of a gender imbalance in my profession. It's an issue that's interested me for a while, not least because people often ask me about what we can do to improve the situation. For myself, I enjoy writing code and I...
Note: this was originally posted on Praqma's blog The life of a consultant has drawn me back, but perhaps surprisingly, this time it’s not a return to my one-person firm. Rather than reinvigorating Bache Consulting, I’ve decided to join Praqma, the Continuous Delivery...
Hi – I´m Emily!
I am a consultant with Bache Consulting and chair of the Samman Technical Coaching Society. As a technical coach I work with software development organizations who want to get better at technical practices like Test-Driven Development, Agentic AI tools and Incremental Design. I also write books and publish videos. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden, although I am originally from the UK.
If you’re enjoying the insights shared here on the blog, you might enjoy my book too.
“Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method” offers a practical guide to improving how developers collaborate and write code. You’ll learn hands-on techniques for Test-Driven Development, Refactoring, and effective team coaching.
To learn more about the book, just click the link below.
Blog categories