I am a
SoftwareDevelopmentCoach introducing
ExtremeProgramming and applying
AgilePrinciples. I prefer to coach by being
JustaProgrammer PairProgramming with
TestFirstDesign with my teammates or facilitating workshops with games. I am an independent consultant operating from my own company Living Software B.V.
I am interested in, amongst other things,
ExtremeProgramming,
DesignPatterns and
TheToyotaWay. Some of my favorite authors are
KentBeck,
GeraldWeinberg and
ChristopherAlexander.
When I started out as a consultant, I found the work of
DavidMaister illuminating. I'm not so sure any more about that. What remained was
SecretsOfConsulting,
FlawlessConsulting , some
SolutionSelling.
Playing games to learn and share experience is fun. For instance the
XpGame by
VeraPeeters and
PascalVanCauwenberghe,
GameOfGoose by
NynkeFokma and games from the
SystemsThinkingPlaybook .
One of my favorite Extreme activities is to
ReFactor, especially when using a
RefactoringBrowser or similar tools. Refactoring results in
SimplyUnderstoodCode.
If you would like to meet me or other extreme programmers in the Netherlands or Flanders, visit the wiki at
http://www.xp-nl.org (in dutch), the official wiki of the
DutchXpCommunity.
Favourite languages:
RubyLanguage and
SqueakSmalltalk also ran:
PythonLanguage,
JavaLanguage,
PerlLanguage. Finally after several years of practice more and more people are starting to see the limitations of the overly complex J2EE :-)
TestDrivenDevelopment gets me 100%
CodeCoverage. Build, install/checkout and monitor scripts are in
RubyLanguage these days. Using Ant for this was way too complicated.
My contact information is at
http://www.WillemVanDenEnde.com . I keep a blog these days:
http://ruminations.willemvandenende.com
-- Willem van den Ende
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