Scott helped our successful software development team become more
successful. He showed our team how greater productivity is achieved
through software design, and challenged them to see the potential
productivity pitfalls and communications barriers. He worked with our
team, teaching our people to use behavior-driven development and
test-driven design to improve our code, productivity, and communications.
He helped our testers improve their ability to automate testing and
become a more integral part of our product development process.
Through Scott's network we connected with people who would continue to
help us improve and who would ultimately join the VersionOne team.
Scott challenged us to go further than we'd come, and these challenges
pay off.
Scott is one of those rare individuals with strong opinions, strong
technical skills and experience, and a clarity of purpose and character that
demands the highest expectations of himself and the people around him. Never
have I met someone who is both so open-minded and yet so passionately
outspoken. If people like me are priests of a technical religion, then Scott
is the prophet in the wilderness, dressed in sackcloth and ashes, preaching
to a growing community of people who want to see software 'done right'.
Anyone who is involved in the development of software, whether they agree
with Scott or not, needs to listen to what he has to say.
Scott worked with our team for two years, and in that time our
development organization fundamentally transformed. We were a culture
of individuals working in closed offices on disconnected projects. Now
we're an integrated product development group working together in a
collaborative environment, using more effective ways of software
design and development. I continue to learn from Scott in
conversations about product design through a professional relationship
that goes well beyond the work he did for us, and I continue to
benefit from his insight and the community of professionals that he
brings together for innovative events and exchanges. Scott came to our
organization to introduce some contemporary software development
techniques and left us on a whole new path pursuing new markets in new
ways.