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Martin Fowler
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Martin Fowler is a famous author and international speaker on software architecture, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.
Martin Fowler started working with software in the early 80's and has written five popular books on the topic of software development (see Publications). In March 2000, he became Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, a systems integration and consulting company.[1]
Fowler is a member of the Agile Alliance and helped create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, along with more than 15 co-authors. He maintains a bliki, a mix of blog and wiki.
Martin Fowler was born in Walsall, England, and lived in London for a decade before moving to United States in 1994.[1] He lives near Boston, Massachusetts in the suburb of Melrose.
- Fowler, Martin. Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-89542-0.
- Fowler, Martin; Kent Beck. Planning Extreme Programming. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-71091-9.
- Fowler, Martin (September 2003). UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, 3rd ed., Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-19368-7.
- Fowler, Martin; Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, and Don Roberts (June 1999). Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-48567-2.
- Fowler, Martin; David Rice, Matthew Foemmel, Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee, and Randy Stafford (November 2002). Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-12742-0.
- Home Page of Martin Fowler
- A Conversation with Martin Fowler
- The New Methodology, a paper on lightweight software development methodology
- ThoughtWorks, the consulting firm where Martin Fowler works
- Keynote at the RailsConf 2006
- Agile Alliance