About the Author

Joshua Kerievsky is a software development coach, programmer and author. After programming on Wall Street for nearly 10 years, in 1995 he founded San Francisco Bay Area-based Industrial Logic (http://industriallogic.com), a company that specializes in XP. Since 1999, Joshua has been programming and coaching on small, large and distributed XP projects and teaching XP to people throughout the world. He regularly speaks about XP, has authored numerous XP articles, simulations and games and is hard at work on the forthcoming book, Refactoring to Patterns (http://industriallogic.com/xp/refactoring/).