Daniel Terhorst-North
Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates
Daniel Terhorst-North
Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates
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
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.
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Content featuring Daniel Terhorst-North

SWARMing: Scaling Without A Religious Methodology

Governing Agile Delivery

Beyond Developer

Patterns of Effective Teams

How to Break the Rules

Agile Revisited

How to Break the Rules

Agility at Scale: A Meeting of Mindsets

Agility at Scale: A Meeting of Mindsets

CUPID — For Joyful Coding

Agility at Scale: A Meeting of Mindsets

How to Bake a Change

The Most Dangerous Phrase

The Best Programmer I Know

Developer Productivity Panel

Live interview

The Best Programmer I Know

Panel Discussion: Where Is Software Development Going?

How to Deliver Quality Software Against All Odds

From XP to TCR & Limbo

Balancing Technology & Human Creativity

Balancing Technology and Human Creativity

From Extreme Programming to TCR and Limbo

How to Continuously Deliver Quality Software Against All Odds
Past masterclasses featuring Daniel Terhorst-North
Testing, Faster | GOTO Berlin 2017
Testing Faster | GOTO Chicago 2017
Testing Faster | GOTO Copenhagen 2017
Testing Faster | GOTO Copenhagen 2018
Testing Faster | GOTO Chicago 2018
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