Sallyann Freudenberg is an independent agile coach. Along with agile coaching and mentoring, Sallyann does a substantial amount of facilitating, and is known for bringing ‘tricky’ sessions to successful outcomes. These sessions tend to be tricky either in terms of subject matter (e.g. retrospecting on unsuccessful or emotive events) or participants (e.g. many stakeholders with differing viewpoints and opinions).

Sallyann has recently completed a PhD in collaborative software development. She focused in particular on the subtle ways in which members of agile project teams (especially pair programmers) interact. Sallyann is fascinated by the cognitive and behavioural aspects of our interactions and has published (under her maiden name of ‘Bryant’) in The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. She has also presented her work at a range of international conferences relating to Agile methods (Agile, XP), Collaborative working (COOP, VL/HCC) and the Psychology of Programming (PPIG).

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