Kent Beck
Kent Beck has pioneered people-oriented technologies like JUnit, Extreme Programming, and patterns for software development. Kent is interested in helping teams do well by doing good—finding a style of software development that simultaneously satisfies economic, aesthetic, emotional, and practical constraints. His books focus on touching the lives of the creators and users of software.
Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks. He describes himself as βan author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development.β Fowler concentrates on designing enterprise software: exploring what makes a good design and what practices are needed to create one.