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Rachel Davies is a leading expert in coaching agile teams and author of the first book on Agile Coaching. She is a internationally recognized and presents at many industry conferences.

Rachel has over 20 years experience in software development in a variety of roles from software developer to manager. She has been an agile practitioner since 2000 and utilizes a range of agile methods including XP, SCRUM, Lean/Kanban, and DSDM. She has extensive experience facilitating agile meetings and workshops.

Rachel has worked with many well-known companies to improve their software development process. In the last year, she has worked with agile teams at: Agresso, BSkyB, BBC, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds TSB, News International, NOKIA, Screwfix, and Yell.

In her spare time, Rachel supports the agile community as a director of the non-profit Agile Alliance. She also works behind the scenes as organizer of many agile conferences, such as Agile2008, SPA, Agile Coaches Gathering.