David Peterson

About Me

I took part in a pub quiz recently with some guys from work. We were awful. I think our team ended up 24th out of 25. The sad thing was we were trying really hard. It wasn't like we were mucking about. It made me realise that my interests have started to become really narrow. I think doing an MBA (2002-2004) was the tipping point as it left me with no spare time for watching TV.

The things I'm interested in these days are: strategy, management, lean-thinking and agile methods, behaviour-driven development (BDD), acceptance test-driven development (ATDD), rules engines, mock objects, Theory of Constraints, creativity techniques, Competitive Engineering (Tom Gilb's ideas), real options, systems-thinking, graphic design, and collecting business books (I have about 1,000).

I know all that probably makes me sound like a right barrel of laughs, but it makes me happy anyway. Just writing that list made me happy. :-)

Other things that are important about me:

• I'm married with two kids.
• I developed an open source framework called Concordion.
• I have a blog which I update once or twice a month.
• I'm based in London, UK where I worked as a contract software developer for about 10 years in investment banking (GE Capital Bank, JP Morgan Chase, UBS, RBS, HSBC) and telecoms (BSkyB) before moving into agile management consulting.
• My main technical skills are Java and SQL.
• I have a 1st Class (Hons) degree in Computer Science and an Executive MBA in Strategic Management of Technology.
• My e-mail address is david@crowdsoft.com