The Origins Of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) | Dan Terhorst-North In The Engineering Room Ep. 39

About this episode

Dave Farley interviews Daniel Terhorst-North about the origins and impact of Behavior-Driven Development in agile software development.

Join Dave Farley in conversation with Daniel Terhorst-North, the creator of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and pioneering voice in agile software development. In this wide-ranging discussion, Dan shares insights from his time at ThoughtWorks, where he helped establish many practices now considered standard in modern software engineering. Whether you're interested in improving your development practices, leading organizational change, or understanding the historical evolution of agile methodologies, this conversation offers valuable perspectives from one of the field's most influential practitioners. ----------------------------------- Dan Terhorst-North's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapod/?originalSubdomain=uk Dan Terhorst-North's Website: https://goalwards.co/ Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 Only Patreon Supporters get to see the FULL VIDEO Episodes of The Engineering Room, sign…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Farley

Guest: Daniel Terhorst-North

Topics covered

• Behavior-Driven Development
• agile software development
• development practices
• organizational change
• historical evolution of agile methodologies

Keywords

• Behavior-Driven Development
• agile methodologies
• software engineering
• development practices
• organizational change

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ThoughtWorks, Equal Experts

Products: The Software Developers’ Guidebook, Continuous Delivery

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