Acknowledgments

We are thankful for all the support, opinions, feedback, and contributions from our community of passionate advocates for EDGE. A special thanks to our clients who have pushed and stretched us to go further in defining a new way of working for the industry.

A special shout-out to our ThoughtWorks colleagues, who are the sponsors, brain trust, and contributors to this evolving body of knowledge: Dan McClure, Sriram Narayan, Kylie Castellaw, Gary O’Brien, Rujia Wang, Kraig Parkinson, Natalie Hollier, Joanne Molesky, Chad Wathington, David Whalley, Darren Smith, John Spens, Rebecca Parsons, Jackie Kinsey, Angela Ferguson, Mike Mason, Brandon Byars, Anne Smith, Patti Purcell, and Lauren David.

Thanks to our industry colleagues, some of whom we have worked with for many, many years: Sam Bayer, Heidi Musser, Donna Fitzgerald, Jurgen Appelo, Rob Austin, Barry O’Reilly, Vickie Hall, and Pat Reed. And thanks to the staff at Cannon Mine Coffee, who kept Jim supplied with coffee and pastries through long mornings of writing.

Thanks to graphics designer Shabrin Sultana and production consultant Gareth Morgan.

To the wonderful staff at Pearson who shepherded us through the editing and production process—Haze Humbert, Chris Zahn, and Julie Nahil and freelance copy editor Jill Hobbs.