Technical Coaching with the Samman method

Samman is a method for people who want to make a difference and improve the way software is built. The focus is specifically on technical practices and how people write code, and it's the best way I know to help software developers to adopt practices like TDD and Refactoring. A Samman technical coach divides their time between several software development teams and there are two main parts to the method:

- Learning Hour
- Ensemble Working

In the learning hour the coach uses exercises and active learning techniques to teach the theory and practice of skills like Test-Driven Development and Refactoring. In two-hour Ensemble sessions the whole team collaborates together with the coach in applying agile development techniques in their usual production codebase. If you're a technical coach, or have aspirations to help your organization adopt new technical practices, Samman gives concrete actionable ways of working to achieve change.