The authors

Andrew Stellman is a developer, architect, speaker, trainer, agile coach, project manager, and expert in building better software. Andrew is an author and international speaker, with top-selling books in software development and project management, and world-recognized expert in transforming and improving software organizations, teams, and code. He has architected and built large-scale software systems, managed large international software teams, and consulted for companies, schools, and corporations, including Microsoft, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Bank of America, Notre Dame, and MIT. Andrew’s had the privilege of working with some pretty amazing programmers during that time, and likes to think that he’s learned a few things from them.

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Jennifer Greene is an enterprise agile transformation leader, an agile coach, development manager, project manager, speaker, and authority on software engineering practices and principles. She’s been building software for over 20 years in many different domains, including media, finance, and IT consulting. She’s led large-scale agile adoption efforts supporting development teams around the world and helped individual team members get the most out of agile practices. She looks forward to continuing to work with talented teams solving interesting and difficult problems.

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Jenny and Andrew have been building software and writing about software engineering together since they first met in 1998. Their first book, Applied Software Project Management, was published by O’Reilly in 2005. They published their first book in the Head First series, Head First PMP, and their second one, Head First C#, both in 2007. Both books have gone on to third and, soon, fourth editions. Their fourth book, Beautiful Teams, was released in 2009, followed by their fifth, Learning Agile, in 2014.

They founded Stellman & Greene Consulting in 2003—their first project as a consulting company was a really fascinating software project for scientists studying herbicide exposure in Vietnam veterans. And when they’re not building software or writing books, they do a lot of speaking at conferences and meetings of software engineers, architects, and project managers.

Check out their website, Building Better Software, at http://www.stellman-greene.com.