Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler is an author and a famous speaker on software architecture, specialized on Object-Oriented analysis and design, Unified Modeling Language, Patterns, and agile software development methodologies. Martin started working with software in the early 80 s and has written five popular books on the topic of software development (see Publications ).

He currently works as chief scientist for ThoughtWorks, a systems integration and consulting company.

He maintains a bliki , a mix of Blog and Wiki.

He is a member of The Agile Alliance and helped create the *[http://agilemanifesto.org/]:Agile Manifesto.

== Publications ==

Martin Fowler: Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models , Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201895420

Kent Beck, Martin Fowler: Planning Extreme Programming , Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201710919

Martin Fowler: UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language , Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0321193687

Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts : Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code , Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201485672

Martin Fowler, David Rice, Matthew Foemmel, Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee, Randy Stafford: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture , Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0321127420

=External links=

*[http://martinfowler.com Martin Fowler home page] *[http://www.artima.com/intv/martin.html A Conversation with Martin Fowler] *[http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html The New Methodology], a paper on lightweight software development methodology *[http://www.thoughtworks.com ThoughtWorks], the consulting firm where Martin works.