Colin Deady

Colin Deady is Agile Lead for PPS, an Edenred company. Responsible for intra- and inter-team and -department collaboration, discovery of Ways of Working, enacting, measuring and responding to feedback. Colin introduced Better Value Sooner Safer Happier and Intent-Based Leadership concepts to PPS' Engineering and Product functions. Previously at Capita was Head of Agile Development for Capita Application Service where he helped 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 Lean, agility, BDD and ZKD at conferences across the UK.