About

Agiles Memes is just that.  It’s a col­lec­tion of ideas that have come out of my head relat­ing to agile and lean method­olo­gies.  Hope­fully some of them will ring true with oth­ers and as such they will con­tinue to prop­a­gate and grow towards becom­ing true memes.

As for a bit about me;  I am Piers Saye and  I am an agile and lean coach based in Lon­don, UK.  My back­ground is in soft­ware devel­op­ment, group facil­i­ta­tion and more recently Neuro Lin­guis­tic Pro­gram­ming and a lit­tle prop­erty development.

I have recently been work­ing as a trainer and facil­i­ta­tor, pro­vid­ing coach­ing and con­sult­ing ser­vices to teams look­ing to make the tran­si­tion from tra­di­tional method­olo­gies (or no method­ol­ogy) to a leaner, more agile, trust-centric and team-focused way of working.

My cur­rent focus is on Agile method­olo­gies, par­tic­u­larly Scrum and Kan­ban. I offer train­ing classes to explore the prin­ci­ples and prac­tices of these and other Agile processes. I use a fairly fast-paced and some would say Amer­i­can style of “immer­sive learn­ing” for teams, ide­ally work­ing on exist­ing prob­lems using real world data that is famil­iar to the team.  I find that this pro­vides a very effec­tive method for par­tic­i­pants to absorb a great deal of knowl­edge very quickly.  Knowl­edge that is not just learned but ingrained through the act of doing rather than viewing.

I am also an advo­cate of Neuro Lin­guis­tic Pro­gram­ming, as a mas­ter prac­ti­tioner I aim to coach teams not just in the meth­ods of how to ‘do’  and more impor­tantly be Agile but also how to com­mu­ni­cate more effec­tively both inter­nally and exter­nally.  This is some­thing that I pro­mote not just within the team but in the broader scheme of life. The tools that I teach can be applied as much in your work­place as with your doc­tor, fam­ily and friends.

I am very inter­ested in per­sonal and organ­i­sa­tional devel­op­ment and strongly believe that there is com­plete syn­ergy to be gained from both work­ing with the indi­vid­ual and by the indi­vid­ual work­ing with the team.  I believe that self-management, man­age­ment by group con­sen­sus and empir­i­cal learn­ing are key to effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion and pro­duc­tiv­ity both for the indi­vid­ual and the organisation.

I would love to hear from you if you have ideas or thoughts, if you agree or dis­agree.  I am open to dis­cus­sion and debate though if you strongly dis­agree with me, I’d pre­fer that you con­tact me directly rather than using the blog for a flame war!