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.

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.

Jay Fields

Jay Fields is a software developer and consultant at ThoughtWorks. He has a passion for discovering and maturing innovative solutions. His most recent work has been in the Domain Specific Language space.

Jay Fields

Jay Fields is a software developer for DRW Trading and a frequent conference presenter. Jay has a passion for discovering and maturing innovative solutions. Jay’s website is available at www.jayfields.com.

Shane Harvie has delivered software in Agile environments in the United States, India, and Australia. He works for DRW Trading in Chicago and blogs at www.shaneharvie.com.

Martin Fowler is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks and one of the world’s leading experts in the effective design of enterprise software. He has pioneered object-oriented development, patterns, agile methodologies, domain modeling, UML, and Extreme Programming. His books include Refactoring, Analysis Patterns, and UML Distilled. His book, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, won Software Development’s Jolt Productivity Award and Javaworld.com’s best Java book award.

Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks. He describes himself as “an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development.” Fowler concentrates on designing enterprise software: exploring what makes a good design and what practices are needed to create one.

Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks and describes himself as “an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development. I concentrate on designing enterprise software–looking at what makes a good design and what practices are needed to come up with good design."

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Shane Harvie

Shane Harvie has worked as a software developer for Thoughtworks in Australia, India and the US. He is currently starting a software product company.

Shane Harvie

Jay Fields is a software developer for DRW Trading and a frequent conference presenter. Jay has a passion for discovering and maturing innovative solutions. Jay’s website is available at www.jayfields.com.

Shane Harvie has delivered software in Agile environments in the United States, India, and Australia. He works for DRW Trading in Chicago and blogs at www.shaneharvie.com.

Martin Fowler is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks and one of the world’s leading experts in the effective design of enterprise software. He has pioneered object-oriented development, patterns, agile methodologies, domain modeling, UML, and Extreme Programming. His books include Refactoring, Analysis Patterns, and UML Distilled. His book, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, won Software Development’s Jolt Productivity Award and Javaworld.com’s best Java book award.