Ann Anderson

AnnAnderson has been working in Smalltalk since about 1990. She has worked at several companies, including Allen-Bradley (Milwaukee, WI), OakTreeSoftware (Ann Arbor, MI), ArborIntelligentSystems? (also in Ann Arbor), Principal Financial Group (Des Moines, IA) and DaimlerChrysler (Detroit, MI).

Ann is currently gainfully employed by First Data Corporation. She lives and works in Omaha, NE.

She worked on the ChryslerComprehensiveCompensation (C3) project in Detroit, which is where she first started using ExtremeProgramming. Along with RonJeffries and ChetHendrickson, she wrote ExtremeProgrammingInstalled, a wonderful book that describes extreme programming and working on C3.

Ann has been actively involved in several ExtremeProgramming conferences, such as XpUniverse and XP2000-XP2002 (which were all held in Sardinia, Italy). She was the co-chair (along with ChetHendrickson) for OpenSpace at this year's XP Agile Universe which was held in Chicago.

The web site for XpUniverse is http://www.xpuniverse.com

Notes from the open space sessions are available at http://monet.objectmentor.com/cgi-bin/openspace/wiki.py?FrontPage

Ann can be reached by email at either mailto:aanderso@firstdatacorp.com or mailto:ann.anderson@direcway.com

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