Hard Boiled Software

Simon Brown is the creator of the C4 model for Visualising Software Architecture and the founder of Structurizr, the original developer-friendly “diagrams as code” tooling for version-controlled architecture documentation. An independent consultant based in Jersey, he has spent 15+ years helping hundreds of organizations across roughly 40 countries communicate their software architecture more clea...

Jimmy Parker is the Founder and Chief Transformation Officer of Peaq , where he helps companies create fast, lasting transformation at scale. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who served 11 years as a Marine Corps helicopter pilot, Jimmy went on to earn a PhD in developmental psychology applied to organizational transformation from Fielding Graduate University. Before founding Peaq, he led orga...

Adam Dymitruk is the creator of event modeling and the CEO and founder of Adaptech Group , a consultancy that builds information systems using event sourcing and event modeling. A software developer with over three decades of experience, Adam is a core contributor to CQRS and event sourcing theory and practice since 2008, a top 0.1% Stack Overflow contributor, and one of the original voices in the...

Woody Zuill is the leading advocate of mob programming, now called software teaming, an approach in which the whole team works together on the same thing at the same time on the same computer. A software developer for over 40 years, Woody is the co-author of Software Teaming: A Mob Programming, Whole-Team Approach (with Kevin Meadows) and a globally recognized speaker, trainer, and coach who has d...

Connecting the Dots from Strategy to Execution Steve Elliott is the founder and CEO of Dotwork , an AI-native strategic alignment platform built on knowledge graphs and flexible ontologies. A serial entrepreneur with several successful exits, Steve previously founded AgileCraft (acquired by Atlassian in 2019) and served as Head of Product at Atlassian. He also co-founded The Uncertainty Project ,...

Diana Larsen is a pioneering figure in the Agile movement who has been shaping how teams learn and work together since the late 1990s. Co-author of the foundational Agile Retrospectives (with Esther Derby) and Liftoff (with Ainsley Nies), Diana brings decades of experience helping organizations build learning cultures. Her recent work with Lead Without Blame (co-authored with Tricia Broderick) ext...

Michael Feathers is the author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code , the de facto survival guide for developers dealing with gnarly, untested systems for nearly two decades. He’s been a thought leader in software craftsmanship, refactoring, and technical excellence throughout his career. * Working Effectively with Legacy Code — Michael’s seminal book on wrangling tougher codebases * R7K Resear...