Kent's responsible for or a major contributor to
HillsideGroup,
SmalltalkBestPracticePatterns,
SoftwarePatterns,
HotDraw,
FirstClassSoftware, the
TimeTravel patterns, the xUnit family of
TestingFrameworks and
ExtremeProgramming. His most recent book is
ImplementationPatterns (
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321413091).
Kent is collecting
ConsequencesOfShorteningReleaseCycles.
Here's his bio with photo from the repository:
http://c2.com/ppr/about/author/kent.html. Here is his self-published bio:
http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/Kent%20Beck.htm.
After two years of Swiss adventure, we are in Oregon as of 1 October 1999 (
KentInMerlin). I work for
ThreeRiversInstitute (a new incarnation of
FirstClassSoftware) programming, writing, and coaching teams applying
ExtremeProgramming. My family and I are living the life of
RuralTechugees. Email still goes to
mailto:[email protected].
Recent projects include:
I enjoy re-applying facilitation patterns like
PolarizingQuestion,
ObliqueQuestion, and
DichotomyList.
KentBeckPapers is an annotated bibliography of my papers. I often write 4-6 pages as a thought tool.
I perform various forms of American folk music, including
CowboyMusic, which has lead me to think about
WhyCowboys?
I have a new favorite author:
MrBunny
I'm experimenting with a new project metric,
SoftwareInProcess.
Kent was a Software Fellow with Agitar from 2004 to 2008.
Kent is an excellent teacher. He is patient and knows how to lead people to understanding. Patterns are about conveying knowledge, this is also known as teaching. Therefore, Kent is good at writing patterns and teaching.
mailto:[email protected]
Kent is the author of the
ObjectExplorer. The product is found at
http://www.mojowire.com/ObjectExplorer. That version is for
VisualWorks 5i, but I also have a version for VW 3.x. The code is available under the
ParcPlace Public License. -- Peter Hatch
I met Kent at OOPSLA 97 in Atlanta. He and
ErichGamma did a tutorial called "
AdvancedDesignWithPatternsAndJava". Great job! They left me with the impression that they were seriously considering collaborating on a new book on Patterns and Java. I wonder what is the status of the
JavaAndPatternsBook?
Kent, big compliments on DrivingMetaphor. I think this is the most accessible description of WuWei I've ever seen. --
PeterMerel
Kent, regarding your comment that "all methodologies are based on fear". Would I be way off if I were to guess your fear
was the ChangeCostCurve? -- BenAveling
No, my fears are more about not spending enough time with my kids, growing away from my wife, and dying young of heart trouble like my grandfather. The
ChangeCostCurve I know how to handle.
KentBeck is one of the authors of
PlanningExtremeProgramming and is the author of the earlier book
ExtremeProgrammingExplainedEmbraceChange.
CategoryHomePage
Q: Where can I find a more or less complete biography for
KentBeck?
A:
http://www.threeriversinstitute.org has as much information as is pulled together.
CurrentBiography (
http://www.hwwilson.com) published a more complete biography in their January 2007 issue.
Whatever came of the concepts as described here?
http://web.uccs.edu/adavis/UCCS/BeckPoster.htm Has nobody heard of
PermaProgramming? Related to
PermaCulture
I gave that one talk but never really followed up. I think the design principles in the
PermaCulture world are far more advanced than those in the software world and I would love to learn to apply them to software. However, I figure I should stop killing trees with my beginning attempts at
PermaCulture first.
Kent, I noticed that you're an ENTJ and began to wonder how one might capitalize on available MBTI in attempts to build hypereffective XP teams. Are you (or is anyone else) aware of empirical or anecdotal data which might suggest patterns for building highly compatible XP teams? At the very least, the creation of a set of unbiased type-centric patterns (or anti-patterns) could be established and shared which might offer insight in how extra "extremeness" can be wrung from a team composed of highly compatible players. Any thoughts on the relevance of such an idea or if it even makes sense in the context of human factors when applied to agile methods? --
BillCraun
Professor
MichaelHolcombe at the
UniversityOfSheffield has been working with the Department of Work Psychology to measure the psychological and emotional effects of working
XpStyle.
Kent, please make the text from the "The Metaphor Metaphor" presentation available (OOPSLA 2002). The discussion of the use of the war metaphor in our attempts to fight terrorism as opposed to a disease model are important and timely --
WatsonCrick
I have never turned that material into a paper.
Kent, the page
BorrowingTrouble says that your grandmother cautioned you against borrowing trouble. Perhaps you could explain the what this means on that page. --
MarkCarter 15-Aug-2004
- The phrase is a common idiom in English, and WikiIsNotaDictionary
- I'm 32 years old, and never once left the United States. I've never heard this term before in all the states I've lived in. While WikiIsNotaDictionary, it is a great place to provide links. Thanks. --SamuelFalvo
Google found 2 overlapping definitions at
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/borrowing+trouble
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/borrowing+trouble
http://www.answers.com/topic/borrow-trouble
"Go out of one's way to do something that may be harmful" and "worry needlessly"
So I went to the OED2 -
http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50025423 (borrow v.1.b.) endorses the first definition, as a U.S. colloquialism. It seems well attested (back to 1854), but it is no wonder non-US English speakers are unfamiliar with it. I marked up the
BorrowingTrouble page appropriately.
Kent gave KentsKeynoteAtXP2006 where he talked about what is
MoreExtremeThanXp
Kent's talk at RailsConf2008 was wonderful history lesson:
http://blip.tv/file/1163850