I have been developing software (OO whenever possible) for the past 8.5 years at NCR, first in the delightful Human Interface Technology Center, and more recently in the Retail Systems Group.
I became quite fascinated with
ExtremeProgramming last year after reading
KentBeck's book. This summer, I had the excellent fortune to be "reduced in force" at NCR and have landed at Retek (thanks to former NCR colleague
WesHunter) in a software development group which is preparing to go "Extreme".
I am deeply grateful to all the XP pioneers for making programming fun again.
December, 2007
Just stumbled across this page while googling myself (come on, you know you do it too).
Thought I should update with the fact that Retek has been bought out by Oracle.
I'm still hacking away here, working with smart and hard-working folks.
We're no longer officially doing
ExtremeProgramming, but have, at least,
kept some of the good habits, particularly
CodeUnitTestFirst.
If anybody is trying to track me down, the best place is probably at

:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottcoulter
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