Agile methods and Thought Leadership

Writing

• Innovation and Sustainability with Gold Cards
• Extreme Programming
• In "Smalltalk Envy" by Paul Hammant

Conferences

Our principal consultant Duncan Pierce regularly spoke at Agile and Extreme Programming conferences from 2000 to 2008 and was a founder of the XPDay conferences, acting as Treasurer, Conference Chair and on the Programme Committee. Amarinda sponsored the 2003 conference. He presented at Object Technology (now Software Practise Advancement), ACCU, XPDay, XPDays Benelux and ECOOP conferences, including:

• Do you get what you measure? (with Jason Gorman)
• Refactoring and Test-Driven Development (with Ivan Moore)
• Refactoring: keeping software malleable (with Peter Brown)
• Introduction to Extreme Programming (with Sean Hanly)
• Test-Driven Development (with Ivan Moore)
• Extreme Hour (with Tung Mac and Nat Pryce)
• What's this Continuous Integration thing, anyway? (with Linsday McEwan)
• The Yellow Brick Road (with Portia Tung)
• But that's crazy! Cognitive bias in decision-making (with Rachel Davies)
• The XP Game (with Ivan Moore and Rachel Davies) and Refactoring (with Rachel Davies)
• Experience Scrum (with Rachel Davies and Giovanni Asproni)

Academic work

Duncan Pierce holds bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees and was a guest lecturer on Oxford University's Software Engineering Programme for 7 years.