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 uses his deep technical and operational knowledge to help business and technology leaders to optimize their organizations. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to complex business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques.

The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Daniel has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts.

Recently he has founded a business agility consulting venture, Goalwards.

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

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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Best Simple System 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.

Thursday Oct 2 @ 16:15 @ GOTO Copenhagen 2025

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