I'm a bit too lazy to check, but didn't he leave thoughtworks?
Apropos of nothing I saw him speak once at a corporate shindig and I didn't get the impression that he enjoyed it very much. Some of the engineering management were being super weird about him being a (very niche) famous person too...
[...] I don't come up with original ideas, but do a pretty good job of recognizing and packaging the ideas of others [...]
[...] I see my main role as helping my colleagues to capture and promulgate what we've learned about software development to help our profession improve. We've always believed that this openness helps us find clients, recruit the best people, and help our clients succeed. [...]
So, we should read him as such. It's a consultant, trying to capture what successful teams do. Sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing.
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I'm a bit too lazy to check, but didn't he leave thoughtworks?
Apropos of nothing I saw him speak once at a corporate shindig and I didn't get the impression that he enjoyed it very much. Some of the engineering management were being super weird about him being a (very niche) famous person too...
https://martinfowler.com/aboutMe.html
So, we should read him as such. It's a consultant, trying to capture what successful teams do. Sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing.
Yeah, seems I was misremembering - looks like he just doesn't do talks any more.