William C. Wake

William C. Wake is a senior consultant with Industrial Logic, Inc. From 2007 to early 2009, he managed development at Gene Codes Forensics, Inc., a producer of bioinformatics software. From 2001 through 2006, he was an independent consultant focused on agile software. He’s the author of the Refactoring Workbook (Addison-Wesley, 2004) and coauthor of Design Patterns in Java (Addison-Wesley, 2006). His web site is www.xp123.com.

 

Kevin Rutherford, Ph.D., is an independent agile and TDD coach based in the United Kingdom. He has worked in software development for more than 25 years, and since 1997 has been coaching organizations to become highly responsive service providers. He founded the U.K.’s AgileNorth group and is regularly involved on the agile conference circuit. His working practices focus on use of the Theory of Constraints and code quality, and he is the author of the Reek tool for Ruby. His web site is www.kevinrutherford.co.uk.