Dave Hoover
Dave Hoover is a Lead Consultant with Obtiva, specializing in Agile Development. He is a hands-on coach, spending the majority of his time pair programming with client developers, crafting Ruby and Java applications via test-driven development. Dave was trained in psychology and spent 4 years practicing child and family therapy. He made a career change and landed a job at a web startup where he had the opportunity to teach himself Perl under the guidance of some experienced developers. Since...See more
Dave Hoover is a Lead Consultant with Obtiva, specializing in Agile Development. He is a hands-on coach, spending the majority of his time pair programming with client developers, crafting Ruby and Java applications via test-driven development. Dave was trained in psychology and spent 4 years practicing child and family therapy. He made a career change and landed a job at a web startup where he had the opportunity to teach himself Perl under the guidance of some experienced developers. Since those first days in 2000, he has been consistently introspective and reflective about his journey toward mastery through journaling and blogging. He has written articles for XML.com and Stickyminds.com, developed OSS for the Selenium and Watir projects, and speaks at conferences like XP2005, RailsConf 2006, and Agile 2007. What qualifies him to write this book is that the patterns were initially extracted from his own journey and that he has the expertise to introspect on his own experience and explore the experiences of others through interviews. Prior to joining Obtiva, Dave was with Thoughtworks. See less
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