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I am a principal at Develogical, a software development consultancy based in London, UK. We specialise in agile software development practices, training, education and research.

I am also a guest lecturer at Imperial College and am involved with the UK agile community.

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robert at chatley dot com

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I play the violin and I like cycling.

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Professional Biography

I am a software engineer, and currently work as a principal consultant with Develogical. Previously I led the engineering team at the startup MetaBroadcast and before that I worked at Google in London, where I was part of the team responsible for their Tv Ads product. I also acted as an agile coach and conducted training in agile development in offices throughout the EMEA region.

Before joining Google, I worked as a technical lead at Kizoom, a company specialising in advanced personalised traveller information systems, delivering updates about public transport through channels including web, mobile and digital television. Kizoom is one of the longest standing companies in the UK employing the eXtreme Programming methodology. Prior to Kizoom I have also worked in academic software engineering research, and on core infrastructure teams in the oil and finance industries.

I am a regular presenter at international conferences, and was chair of XPDay, the UK's premiere agile development conference, for 2007 and 2008. I am also a guest lecturer at Imperial College London.

I hold a MEng degree in Information Systems Engineering and PhD in Software Engineering from Imperial College London.