Summary
David Michel is a Senior Agile Coach with 12 years of hands-on experience helping organisations move from ceremony to measurable value, currently shaping product operating models and OKRs at ASOS. Trained as a PhD scientist, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with practical delivery experience earned as a developer, business analyst and project manager across consultancy and ecommerce. He has built coaching capability at scale—leading communities of practice, mentoring other coaches, and transforming cross-team delivery as a Flight Level initiative coach. Founder of The Agile Broadcast and former host of Agile Oxfordshire, he distills advanced agile concepts into accessible formats and is a regular conference speaker. Known for combating "zombie scrum," he focuses on shifting ownership to self-organising teams and embedding outcomes over outputs. Based in Oxford, he brings a rare mix of research discipline, hands-on delivery, and public-facing knowledge sharing.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry at Sheffield Hallam University
DUT Measures Physiques, DUT Measures Physiques at IUT de Rouen
English, French, German