Caz Farrell
Job:
Lead Agile Coach
Company:
Booking
An agile coach is responsible for guiding product teams on a journey to discover better ways of working, to increase their self awareness and to drive continuous improvement in a broad range of areas. Ultimately I help teams to deliver and develop better software to serve the customer
I am...
Lifelong learner
Passionate
Reflective
The skills I use most in my job...
Coaching
Mentoring
Teaching
Facilitating
Role modelling what good looks like
The most interesting thing I've worked on in my career so far...
I'm hard pressed to pick a single thing but some highlights have been working with the contact centre on Grand National day when the atmosphere was electric and being flown to New York for a Women in Leadership training programme which connected me to the most amazing network of women in the Booking.com family.
What inspired me into digital and tech...
When I was in the girl guides my leader LOVED her job. Nobody I knew that had a job talked nicely about work. I wanted to do something that I would be passionate about and love so I called Manchester University aged 15 and asked what A levels they would recommend for the course I fancied doing. It really went from there.
My educational background is...
A sandwich year at university confirmed to me that IT was the area for me so I started as a project manager and accidentally found business analysis which I was made for, and had been doing to fill a gap in a project I was working on. When I first heard about agile I was intrigued and went to learn more in my own time - something I continue to do 12 years later
What advice I'd give to girls thinking about a career in digital and tech...
Digital and tech is fast paced and very varied. The roles within tech are so varied and ,nowadays where a career is more like navigating a jungle gym than going up a ladder, tech offers loads of different opportunities. I've changed my career direction majorly three times so far and I don't think I'm done changing yet. Technology gives me the freedom to do this and it will give you the same freedoms too
