Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the following people for their many contributions to this book. Although we mention some of their contributions here, by no means does this fully encompass all of the many interactions and ways in which people lent a hand.

First, thanks to Jim Turosak for starting us down this path. To Robert Martin for inviting Damon to write a bit for his book Clean Agile and then introducing us to our publisher. To Haze Humbert for believing in us and answering our many questions. To our copy editor Christopher Keane for his attention to detail. To Menka Mehta for keeping us on track. And to everyone else on the Pearson team who helped to make the book a book.

We’d like to thank Lyssa Adkins for blazing the trail for Professional Coaching in the Agile community.

We’d like to thank all of the people who participated in our classes and encouraged us by asking, “When will you write a book?”

We’d like to thank the first five graduates of our Professional Coaching program for believing in us and the overlap that they helped to create between that program and this book: Dave Horecny, Jim Turosak, Rebecca Stevenson, Todd Scanlan, and Scott Showalter.

We would like to thank the many people who contributed to reviewing the book, including Stuart Adair, Zeeshan Amjad, Hadassah Ban, Anastasia Beavers, John Belge, Ashutosh Bhatawadekar, Sachin Bhatnagar, Jayaram Bhogi, Paul Cencula, Tiffany Chang, Logan Dean, Steve Fraser, Jon Green, Peter Jetter, Anbu Joseph, Venkat Kumar, Paul Mahoney, Roy Maines, Ahmed Mohammed, Trisha Nanda, Madhavi Pastamatla, Om Patel, Rituraj Tukaram Patil, Sedera Randria, Joe Reifer, Veronica Sanford, Todd Scanlan, Scott Showalter, Bob Stephan, Jim Stewart, Neha Thaker, Heather Tingle-Chaulk, Jim Turosak, John Varela II, Gabor Vida, Dan Whitacre, and Sarah Wiezel.

Gillian would like to thank all of the people she works with every day at Nulogy.

We would also like to thank our friends and family for encouraging and supporting us along the way.