Daniel Terhorst-North

Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates

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Daniel Terhorst-North

Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates

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Daniel Terhorst-North knows what works and what doesn't. He has worked with 100+ IT Services professionals and managements for technical solutions, programming, training, presenting, and business coaching in Agile software development.

Now he is a Principal Consultant at Dan North & Associates, and is the originator of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery. Daniel has also published feature articles in numerous software and business publications and contributed to many books, as for instance: Things Every Programmer Should Know.

He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques.

Check out some of Daniel’s past talks:

GOTO Chicago 2018 - SWARMing: Scaling Without A Religious Methodology
GOTO Chicago 2018 - Governing Agile Delivery

Upcoming conference sessions featuring Daniel Terhorst-North

Best Simple Systems for Now

You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully.

‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between ‘perfectionism’ and ‘pragmatism’, but I do not think it has to be a trade-off at all.

Wednesday Oct 1 @ 11:15 @ GOTO Copenhagen 2025

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On our live stage, magic happens

Speakers interview each other on topics that matter to them.

The Program Committee brings special guests in front of the camera — with you as the audience. Some interviews will be planned, others completely spontaneous. All of them will be magnificent, no doubt about it.

Expect the unexpected.

Thursday Oct 2 @ 10:15 @ GOTO Copenhagen 2025

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