Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank the following for their invaluable assistance and contributions towards bringing Emily’s Rebellion to fruition.

Our Emily-like colleagues Rosemary Gallaher, Hope McManus, and Deborah Noble provided numerous insightful comments on the coherence of the text for business readers. Their thoughts and impressions led to significant revisions of the manuscript where important concepts lacked clarity. Rosemary, Hope, and Deborah also helped us bring Emily to life on the pages.

Our long-time collaborator Todd Heather, a former government chief technology officer, offered extremely helpful suggestions for improving the chapters on implementing the Transaction Pattern in projects and on the benefits to be gained from using the pattern. Todd led us to see the far-reaching benefits of the Transaction Pattern.

Our test reader Sebastian Harvey offered further helpful suggestions for improving the manuscript in the later stages of development. Thank you, Seb.

Graham gives special thanks to his employer, Robinson Ryan, for the opportunity to devote time to crafting the manuscript and to bring Lloyd’s concepts to the page.

Finally, we wish to thank Deborah Noble for her generous foreword. It was a deep pleasure to have Deborah work with us for a time, through which our ideas – and how to explain them – matured greatly.